| VERB | stative | collide, clash, jar | be incompatible |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | collide | cause to collide | |
| contact | collide, clash | crash together with violent impact |
| Sounds | kahlay'd | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abide ... Yuletide: 172 rhymes with ayd... | |
| Meaning | Be incompatible; be or come into conflict. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | clash, jar | |
| Broader | conflict | Be in conflict |
| Spanish | chocar, topar | |
| Catalan | topar, xocar | |
| Nouns | collision | a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals |
| Meaning | Cause to collide. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The physicists collided the particles" | |
| Narrower | crash | Cause to crash |
| Spanish | chocar, colidir, colisionar, estrellarse, estrellar | |
| Catalan | col·lisionar, estavellar-se, estavellar | |
| Nouns | collider | an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on |
| collision | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | |
| Meaning | crash together with violent impact. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | These cars won't collide | |
| Example | "The cars collided" | |
| Synonym | clash | |
| Narrower | crash, ram | Undergo damage or destruction on impact |
| shock | collide violently | |
| smash | collide or strike violently and suddenly | |
| Broader | hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with | hit against |
| Spanish | chocar, colisionar | |
| Nouns | collision | an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object |
| collision | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | |
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