What's the difference between broadside and collide?

Broadside


Definition:

  • (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
  • (n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
  • (n.) A volley of abuse or denunciation.
  • (n.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ran one forecast in full, a none- too-subtle broadside at his editors.
  • (2) So, all of her recent press- and liberal-friendly broadsides against Wall Street aside, Warren says she is still “not running for president” .
  • (3) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
  • (4) May delivered an unexpected broadside against the EU on Wednesday afternoon, claiming the European commission and unnamed officials had been trying through various means to meddle in the UK election campaign.
  • (5) China's government and media have launched a broadside against Japan's move to loosen the bonds on its powerful military, casting it as a threat to Asian security.
  • (6) That is not just bravado talk.” O’Neill fired a broadside at the Italian referee, Nicola Rizzoli, who had been praised by the Scotland manager, Gordon Strachan .
  • (7) Pamphlets, broadsides and circulars were the order of the day.
  • (8) Instead we received a broadside against the great British literature that the rest of the world celebrates.
  • (9) In the latest broadside against the UK's energy companies, Ofgem's chief executive Andrew Wright is expected to tell the six largest power suppliers to do the right thing and ensure customers get their money back.
  • (10) Seventy-three percent and 67% of the victims in broadside and head-on collisions, respectively, had aortic lacerations at the classic site.
  • (11) It is time for Fifa to stop attacking the messenger and instead consider, and understand, the message.” On Monday Blatter toured the Asian and African confederations and, to huge acclaim, launched a broadside against those who he said were trying “destroy” Fifa, suggesting that there was a “racist and discriminatory” agenda behind the latest wave of corruption claims over the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
  • (12) Save Our Money, an anti-euro broadside by Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former boss of the German equivalent of the CBI, argues for splitting the currency north and south, strong and weak.
  • (13) Whatever the Americans say, Karzai's latest broadside looks like the beginning of an increasingly problematic, dangerous countdown to April's presidential election, which features no obvious successor and far too many unsettling echoes of the pre-2001 past.
  • (14) However, yesterday's broadside from Mr Gore increases the pressure on the White House to offer a fuller explanation of its decisions.
  • (15) However, the viscous absorption coefficient at 1 MHz for a spheroidally shaped RBC oscillating broadside and edgewise to an acoustic field is about 40% and 136%, respectively, of that for a spherically shaped RBC.
  • (16) On the eve of the announcement Microsoft - which began selling its own music player, the Zune, last year - launched a broadside at its competitor.
  • (17) In an unusually candid broadside, Zarif argued that Saudi Arabia fears a normalisation of relations between Iran and the west could leave it exposed.
  • (18) Two retired law lords, Devlin and Scarman, fired broadsides at so seismic a constitutional shift.
  • (19) On Wednesday the British prime minister had delivered an unexpected broadside against the EU , claiming the European commission and unnamed officials had been trying through various means to meddle in the UK general election campaign.
  • (20) Well-known for his scathing line on fellow rock musicians, Noel Gallagher has aimed a rather more unexpected broadside at imaginative writing, branding the art of fiction "a waste of fucking time".

Collide


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
  • (v. t.) To strike or dash against.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
  • (3) Two regions of the dimer were surface loops that collided when built as a tetramer: a large loop (residues 203-207, KNOBI) and a small loop (residues 264-269, KNOBII), and these were candidates to explain the dimeric character of malate dehydrogenase.
  • (4) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
  • (5) Other phenomena expected of an excitable medium, such as wave propagation of undiminished amplitude and annihilation of colliding wavefronts, were observed.
  • (6) On Tuesday 16 August at 4.30pm, he'll talk to his younger fans about his books for kids; at 3pm the day after, he appears with Audrey Niffenegger to discuss the point where comics, fantasy and sci-fi collide; and at 3pm on Sunday 21, he will meet the Guardian Book Club to discuss American Gods.
  • (7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
  • (8) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
  • (9) In another incident, five cars and a bus collided on the Felling bypass in Gateshead, with drivers suffering minor injuries and shock.
  • (10) China's official Xinhua news agency countered that the Vietnamese vessel capsized after "harassing and colliding" with the Chinese boat.
  • (11) It was the first time our opponent has been much better than us.” Mané’s duel with Gomes continued into the second half when they collided again while vying for a deflected Targett cross.
  • (12) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (13) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
  • (14) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
  • (15) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
  • (16) A predecessor to the LHC, a machine called the Large Electron Positron collider at Cern , the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson up to a mass of 114GeV, but saw what might have been hints of the particle before it shut down in 2000 to make way for the LHC.
  • (17) The paper carried a Gulf-English dictionary which gave this definition of deconfliction as “trying not to have so many planes in the air that they collide”.
  • (18) The unique occurrence of the histological combination as gastric colliding neoplasms is discussed.
  • (19) We describe a direct way of measuring contact inhibition of locomotion by analysing the changes in motion of pairs of colliding cells.
  • (20) Relations reached their lowest point in years in 2010, when a Chinese trawler collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels near the islands .