different between wallop vs collision

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?l.?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: wal?lop

Etymology 1

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

Noun

wallop (plural wallops)

1. A heavy blow, punch.

2. A person's ability to throw such punches.

3. An emotional impact, psychological force.

4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,

     "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."

6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Derived terms

• (beer): codswallop

Translations

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

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4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

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8. To be slatternly.

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Derived terms

• walloper
• walloping

Etymology 2

Clipping of write to all operators.

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

1. (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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).