Collide vs. Crash — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Collide and Crash
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Collide
To come together with violent, direct impact.
Crash
To break violently or noisily; smash
The dishes crashed to pieces on the floor.
Collide
To meet in opposition; conflict
"an unlikely foray by an industrial conglomerate into the terrain where entertainment and merchandising collide" (Laura Bird).
Crash
To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact
The car crashed into a tree.
Collide
(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.
When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
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Crash
To make a sudden loud noise
The cymbals crash at the end of each measure.
Collide
(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
China collided with the modern world.
Crash
To move noisily or so as to cause damage
Went crashing through the woods.
Collide
To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
Crash
To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
Collide
To strike or dash against.
Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided.
Crash
(Computers) To stop functioning due to a crash.
Collide
Crash together with violent impact;
The cars collided
Two meteors clashed
Crash
(Slang) To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
Collide
Be incompatible; be or come into conflict;
These colors clash
Crash
To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
Collide
Cause to collide;
The physicists collided the particles
Crash
To fall asleep from exhaustion.
Crash
To cause to crash
Crashed the truck into the signpost.
Crash
To dash to pieces; smash
Crashed the ice with a sledgehammer.
Crash
(Informal) To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.
Crash
A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking
She looked up when she heard the crash outside.
Crash
A smashing to pieces.
Crash
A collision, as between two automobiles.
Crash
A sudden severe downturn
A market crash.
A population crash.
Crash
A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.
Crash
A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
Crash
(Slang) Mental depression after drug-taking.
Crash
A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.
Crash
Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.
Crash
Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish
A crash course on income-tax preparation.
A crash diet.
Crash
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
After the lightning came the crash of thunder.
Crash
An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
Nobody survived the plane crash.
Crash
(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
Crash
(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
The stock market crash
Crash
(informal) A comedown from a drug.
Crash
(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
Crash
(ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
Crash
(textiles) A type of rough linen.
Crash
Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
Crash course
Crash diet
Crash
(intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.
Crash
(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
Crash
To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
Crash
To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
Crash
To give, as a favor.
Crash
To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
Crash
To terminate extraordinarily.
If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
Crash
To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
Crash
(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
Crash
(transitive) To hit or strike with force
Crash
To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
Crash
To make a sudden loud noise.
Thunder crashed directly overhead.
Crash
To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
Crash
To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city.
Crash
To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
Crash
A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
Crash
Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
Crash
Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Crash
A loud resonant repeating noise;
He could hear the clang of distant bells
Crash
A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);
They are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane
Crash
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
Crash
The act of colliding with something;
His crash through the window
The fullback's smash into the defensive line
Crash
(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative;
The crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since
Crash
Fall or come down violently;
The branch crashed down on my car
The plane crashed in the sea
Crash
Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise;
The car crashed through the glass door
Crash
Undergo damage or destruction on impact;
The plane crashed into the ocean
The car crashed into the lamp post
Crash
Move violently as through a barrier;
The terrorists crashed the gate
Crash
Break violently or noisily; smash;
Crash
Occupy, usually uninvited;
My son's friends crashed our house last weekend
Crash
Enter uninvited; informal;
Let's crash the party!
Crash
Cause to crash;
The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace
Crash
Hurl or thrust violently;
He dashed the plate against the wall
Waves were dashing against the rock
Crash
Undergo a sudden and severe downturn;
The economy crashed
Will the stock market crash again?
Crash
Stop operating;
My computer crashed last night
The system goes down at least once a week
Crash
Sleep in a convenient place;
You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable
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