Breakdown vs Crash - What's the difference?
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A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
* 1992 , En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)
(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
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(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
(US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
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(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
* 1893 , (Mark Twain) "The Californian's Tale", in (1906)
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An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
A comedown of a drug.
A group of rhinoceroses.
* Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery'' and Other Group Terms”, in ''The Grasshopper Trap , Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
* 1998 , E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos , page 19
* 1999 , Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life , page 126
* 2003 , Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania , page 23
dysphoria
quick, fast, intensive
To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
(slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
(management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
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To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
(computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
(computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
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.
(fibre) Plain linen.
As nouns the difference between breakdown and crash
is that breakdown is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed while crash is an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.As an adjective crash is
quick, fast, intensive.As a verb crash is
to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.breakdown
English
Noun
(en noun)- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
- After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
- ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- And now it's time for a breakdown !
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- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
Synonyms
* (musical technique) degradationDerived terms
* breakdown lorry / breakdown truck * breakdown point * nervous breakdownSee also
* break it downcrash
English
(wikipedia crash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (for form development compare (m), (m), (m)).Noun
(es)- She broke two bones in her body in a car crash .
- Nobody survived the plane crash
- My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
- The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
- the stock market ''crash'''
- One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash''''' of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody ' crash of rhinoceros!”
- […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
- The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash .
- Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
- The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
Derived terms
* crash and burn * crash course * crashpad * stock market crashAdjective
(-)- crash course
- crash diet
Verb
(es)- I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
- We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
- Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
- If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
- Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.