Lapse vs Collapse - What's the difference?
lapse | collapse |
A temporary failure; a slip.
* Rogers
A decline or fall in standards.
* Rambler
A pause in continuity.
An interval of time between events.
* I. Taylor
A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
(weather) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air. This condition usually occurs when skies are clear and between 1100 and 1600 hours, local time. Strong convection currents exist during lapse conditions. For chemical operations, the state is defined as unstable. This condition is normally considered the most unfavorable for the release of chemical agents. See lapse rate.
(legal) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is ed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
(theology) A fall or apostasy.
To fall away gradually; to subside.
* Jonathan Swift
* Addison
To fall into error or heresy.
* Shakespeare
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To become void.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
* Ayliffe
To fall down suddenly; to cave in
* Maunder
To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely
To fold compactly
(cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
To cause something to collapse.
To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint
The act of collapsing
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Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)
In intransitive terms the difference between lapse and collapse
is that lapse is to become void while collapse is to pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.lapse
English
Noun
(en noun)- to guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us
- The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible.
- Francis Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame.
Synonyms
* blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, mistake, slip, stumble, thinkoDerived terms
* time-lapse (common law rule) * anti-lapseVerb
(laps)- a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
- Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.
- To lapse in fullness / Is sorer than to lie for need.
- If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
Anagrams
* ----collapse
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(wikipedia collapse)Verb
(collaps)- A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse .
- Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
- The exhausted singer collapsed onstage and had to be taken to the hospital.
Derived terms
* collapsibleNoun
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