different between collision vs collide

English

Etymology

From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collisio, from Latin collidere, past participle collisus (“to dash together”); see collide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)

1. An instance of colliding.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.

2. (physics) Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary.
3. (software compilation) Clipping of naming collision.

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• allision

Derived terms

Related terms

• collide

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin coll?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.li.zj??/

Noun

collision f (plural collisions)

1. collision (an instance of colliding)

Derived terms

• collision frontale

Further reading

• “collision” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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?