单词 | collide |
释义 | collidev. 1. transitive. To bring into collision or violent contact, strike or dash together. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision smitea1398 to knock together1398 to strike together1398 collide1621 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. vi. 34 The Outward [aire] being stroke or collided by a solide body. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 52 The inflamable effluencies discharged from the bodies collided. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Collide, v.a., to strike against each other; to beat, to dash, to knock together. 1871 M. Collins Inn of Strange Meetings 18 I whom dreams encumber, By the keen clash of gross events collided. 2. intransitive. To come into collision, come forcibly into contact, strike or dash together. In Nuclear Physics, spec. of particles. When first used of railway trains or ships in collision, c1860–70, it was much objected to as an Americanism. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide hurtle1340 to strike together1340 thrusta1400 fray1483 concura1522 shock1575 to knock together1641 intershock1650 bulgea1676 collide1700 rencounter1712 clash1715 ding1874 bonk1947 the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > collide with hurtlec1430 to run up against1625 rencounter1671 collide1700 shock1783 the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [verb (intransitive)] > come into collision collide1866 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 552 The Flints..thus toss'd in Air, collide. 1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 9 The Blood collides against the Sides of the Aorta. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 22 Tumble and rage along, ye rotten waifs and wrecks; clash and collide. 1866 Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. III. 135 The attraction urges them [i.e. atoms]. They collide, they recoil. 1880 P. Spence in Jrnl. Speculative Philos. XIV. 294 If the atoms A and B collide at the same moment with the atom C, the state into which C is thrown by the double collision cannot be the same as that which would be induced by a collision with either A or B alone. 1886 Daily News 14 Dec. 2/8 Charles, brigantine, in entering the harbour..collided with Sparkling Foam, barquentine. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) iv. 56 The γ-rays do not ionize directly, but split off electrons from the molecules with which they collide. 1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ of Mod. Physics i. 16 When a negative ion moves through a gas under the action of an electric field, it collides with a number of neutral molecules, some of which become ionized as a result of the collision. 3. figurative. a. To come into collision or be in conflict; to clash, conflict. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > clash or come into conflict to fall foul1601 jar1621 clash1622 collide1864 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous [verb (intransitive)] > be in opposition or conflict thwart1519 jar?1541 interferea1644 clash1646 conflict1647 collide1864 1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 326 How often would he not collide against the Bishop of Sorimum? 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. Comm. 152 Overruling the ordinary course of law where it collided with equity. 1880 G. Duff in 19th Cent. No. 38. 667 Our interests would be about as likely to collide as those of a shark and a tiger. b. To come together (without conflict). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)] > towards each other, converge concur1548 converge1691 collide1877 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xix. 191 In great crises their interests collide and harmonise to augment the stability of institutions. Derivatives coˈllided adj. coˈlliding n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > relating or tending to collision > colliding colliding1768 head-on1887 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > mutually opposed contrarious1340 contrariant1560 interfering1580 warrant1606 contrarying1628 antipathizinga1640 clashing1660 jarring1661 conflicting1749 colliding1768 conflictive1846 conflictory1859 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 207 By the collision of flint and steel..particles detached from the colliding bodies. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. vi. 386 To restrain the action of colliding passions. 1883 Daily News 25 June 5/6 The head~gear of the colliding vessel..became entangled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1621 |
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