Broken vs Crash - What's the difference?
broken | crash |
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
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 a proper noun broken
is (derogatory|slang) torres strait creole.As a noun crash is
an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident or crash can be (fibre) plain linen.As an adjective crash is
quick, fast, intensive.As a verb crash is
to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.broken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "broken" is often applied: glass, vase, cup, mirror, window, bone, wing, leg, arm, hand, foot, heart, egg, tool, sword, column, road, bridge, stick, device, machine, camera, TV, car, computer, promise, vow, law, trust, dream, relationship, friendship, love, family, marriage, bond, tie, silence, ground, land, circle, image, language, spirit, soul.Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * broke * broken home * brokenly * brokenness * broken arrow * broken by design * broken language, broken English * broken heart, brokenhearted * broken in * broken promise * broken wind * heartbroken * housebroken * broken skincrash
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.