verb
definition
To impact directly, especially if violent.
example
When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
definition
To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
example
China collided with the modern world.
Examples of collides in a Sentence
And has anybody ever looked into the severity of injuries suffered when a 20-year-old cheeseburger collides with a small child in a car seat?
Suddenly, many people want a puppy from the new breed, driving the price of a pet up as supply collides with demand.
Leaving the consideration of radical changes of a vibrating system out of account for the present, the minor differences which have been observed in the appearances of spectra under different sparking conditions are probably to a large extent due to differences in the quantities of material examined, though temperature must alter the violence of the impact and there is a possible effect due to a difference in the impact according as the vibrating system collides with an electron or with a body of atomic dimensions.
Several times it moves eastward and collides with a countermovement from the east westward.