COLLIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collide mean? 

• COLLIDE (verb)
  The verb COLLIDE has 3 senses:

1. be incompatible; be or come into conflict

2. cause to collide

3. crash together with violent impact

  Familiarity information: COLLIDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they collide    ... he / she / it collides   
Past simple: collided   
Past participle: collided   
-ing form: colliding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be incompatible; be or come into conflict

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

clash; collide; jar

Context example:

These colors clash

Hypernyms (to "collide" is one way to...):

conflict (be in conflict)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

collision (a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to collide

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The physicists collided the particles

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collide"):

crash (cause to crash)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Crash together with violent impact

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

clash; collide

Context example:

Two meteors clashed

Hypernyms (to "collide" is one way to...):

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collide"):

smash (collide or strike violently and suddenly)

shock (collide violently)

crash; ram (undergo damage or destruction on impact)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't collide

Derivation:

collision (an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object)

collision ((physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together)

 Context examples 

In August, detectors on two continents recorded gravitational wave signals from a pair of black holes colliding.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)

During this process, other waves that compress along the direction they travel from outer space collide with Earth's magnetosphere and trigger the formation of EMIC waves.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

They are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas.

(Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere, NASA)

The shockwave begins around the point where the jet appears to curve down, highlighting the regions where the fast-moving particles are colliding with gas in the galaxy and slowing down.

(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)

Computer simulations have shown that 16% of pairs of supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies will have interacted with a third supermassive black hole before they merge.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

If a planet is there, it's extremely distant and will stay that way (with no chance — in case you're wondering — of ever colliding with Earth, or bringing "days of darkness").

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

They had travelled little more than a hundred yards, when Henry, who was in front, bent down and picked up something with which his snowshoe had collided.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When galaxies collide, their central black holes tend to spiral toward each other, releasing gravitational waves in their cosmic dance.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

This results in particles colliding near light-speed, energizing the plasma until it begins to emit the stream of optical radiation.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

The tail of the gas stream is flung out of the system, but the leading edge swings back around the black hole, collides with itself and creates an elliptical cloud of material.

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)