different between collide vs broadside

English

Etymology

From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??la?d/

Verb

collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)

1. (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

   • 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 14

     Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.

   • No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
2. (intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

   China collided with the modern world.

Synonyms

• clash

Related terms

• collision

Translations

Further reading

• collide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• collide in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collied

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

Anagrams

• decolli

Latin

Verb

coll?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coll?d?

English

Etymology

broad +? side

Noun

broadside (plural broadsides)

1. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
2. (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
   • 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)

     Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.

   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.

3. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
4. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Translations

Adverb

broadside (not comparable)

1. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

Translations

Verb

broadside (third-person singular simple present broadsides, present participle broadsiding, simple past and past participle broadsided)

1. (transitive) To collide with something sideways on

References

• broadside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• sideboard