Collied vs Collided - What's the difference?
collied | collided |
(colly)
(British, dialect) black as coal
(archaic) to make black, as with coal
* Ben Jonson
* Shakespeare
*
(British, dialect) Soot.
(British, dialect) A blackbird
(dated)
* {{quote-book
, year=1833
, author=William Craig Brownlee
, title=The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts, vol. 2
, page=30
* {{quote-book
, year=1847
, author=Thomas Miller
, title=The Boy's Country Book
, page=80
* {{quote-book
, year=1861
, author=Francis Galton
, title=Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860
(collide)
To impact directly, especially if violent
* Tyndall
* Carlyle
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 2
, author= Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Belgium
, work=BBC Sport
To come into conflict, or be incompatible
As verbs the difference between collied and collided
is that collied is past tense of colly while collided is past tense of collide.collied
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*colly
English
Adjective
(er)- -
Verb
- Thou hast not collied thy face enough.
- Brief as the lighting in the collied night.
Noun
(collies)- (Burton)
citation, passage=Can a Whig lick the feet o' the tyrant wha usurps oor Lord's throne, and accept o' ane indulgence frae him, hurled to him as a bane to a colly dog , binding himself to think as he thinks, and to preach as he wulls it; and to flatter tyranny in church and state, to win a paltry boon!}}
citation, passage=On the moors and mountains of Scotland the shepherd sends out his colly with the sheep, far out of his sight, conscious that when he sets out to look for them, they will be found herded safely together.}}
citation, page=139 , passage=Colly dog's early training is a rude one, but I think that it is mutual, and that the shepherd picks up a good deal of dog during the process. , }}
See also
* collywobblescollided
English
Verb
(head)collide
English
Verb
(collid)- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
- No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
citation, page= , passage=And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.}}
- China collided with the modern world.