Breakdown vs. Collapse — What's the Difference?

The act or process of failing to function or continue.

To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in.

The condition resulting from this

To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function

(Electricity) The abrupt failure of an insulator or insulating medium to restrict the flow of current.

To fold compactly

A typically sudden collapse in physical or mental health.

To cause to fold, break down, or fall down or inward.

An analysis, an outline, or a summary consisting of itemized data or essentials.

The act of falling down or inward, as from loss of supports.

Disintegration or decomposition into parts or elements.

An abrupt failure of function, strength, or health; a breakdown.

A noisy, energetic American country dance.

An abrupt loss of perceived value or of effect

The music for this dance.

(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.

A popular dance originating in the early 1970s, performed to funk music.

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.

(intransitive) To fold compactly.

Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.

To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the folder.

A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.

(cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession

Listing, division or categorization in great detail.

(transitive) To cause something to collapse.

A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.

(intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.

(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.

The act of collapsing.

(physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.

Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset). en

A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.

(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).

To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States.

A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.

A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.

Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

(music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.

An abrupt failure of function or health

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

A mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

The act of throwing yourself down;

The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue;

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

A mental or physical breakdown

Break down, literally or metaphorically;

A cessation of normal operation;

Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

An analysis into mutually exclusive categories

Fold or close up;

Fall apart;

Cause to burst;

Suffer a nervous breakdown

Lose significance, effectiveness, or value;