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Buckling vs Collapse - What's the difference?

buckling | collapse |

As nouns the difference between buckling and collapse

is that buckling is red herring (smoke-cured herring) or buckling can be bow while collapse is the act of collapsing.

As a verb collapse is

to fall down suddenly; to cave in.

buckling

English

Etymology 1

From the verb .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
  • The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wavy; curly, as hair.
    • (Latham)
    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
  • * 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living , Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1-57061-377-X, page 715,
    • If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.
  • * 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=nWCLpQFrdnMC] Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 0-8121-1478-7, page 429,
    • The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.
  • * 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395901316, page 161,
    • I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings ) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
    Usage notes
    * (young male goat) Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.Stephen W. Barnett, “Goats”, in Stephen W. Barnett (ed.), Manual of Animal Technology ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=Jv8jIGZ2HGsC] Blackwell Publishing (2007), ISBN 0632055936, page 140: “male from 6 months to 2 years of age”.

    Etymology 3

    cognate with (etyl) bockinc and (etyl) bocking (itself from , referencing the foul smell)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Smoked herring
    • See also
    * stockfish

    References

    * *

    collapse

    English

    (wikipedia collapse)

    Verb

    (collaps)
  • To fall down suddenly; to cave in
  • * Maunder
    • A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
  • To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely
    • Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse .
  • To fold compactly
  • (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
  • To cause something to collapse.
    • Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
  • To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint
    • The exhausted singer collapsed onstage and had to be taken to the hospital.

    Derived terms

    * collapsible

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of collapsing
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramatic collapse for Newcastle to surrender their place.}}
  • Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)

    • Anagrams

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