collide
verb/kəˈlaɪd/UK
Etymology
From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.
- derived from collidere
Definitions
To impact directly, especially if violent.
- 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.
To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
- China collided with the modern world.
To meet
To meet; to come into contact.
- Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide
- I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind
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To cause to collide.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA