Crash vs Fell - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between crash and fell

is that crash is an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident or crash can be (fibre) plain linen while fell is fur, pelt (hairy skin of an animal).

As an adjective crash

is quick, fast, intensive.

As a verb crash

is to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

crash

English

(wikipedia crash)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (for form development compare (m), (m), (m)).

Noun

(es)

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

She broke two bones in her body in a car crash .

Nobody survived the plane crash

A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.

The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

the stock market ''crash'''

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,

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.

* 1998 , E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos , page 19

The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash .

* 1999 , Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life , page 126

Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.

* 2003 , Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania , page 23

The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

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Derived terms

* crash and burn * crash course * crashpad * stock market crash

Adjective

(-)

quick, fast, intensive

crash course

crash diet

Verb

(es)

To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

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.

(slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.

We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.

(management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

(computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.

If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.

(computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

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.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(fibre) Plain linen.

Anagrams

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fell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fellen, from (etyl) fellan, .

Verb

(en verb)

To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

* Shakespeare

Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

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To strike down, kill, destroy.

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Verb

(head)

(fall)

Etymology 2

(etyl) 'skin', Russian plená'' 'pelt', (etyl) plah 'to cover', Ancient Greek ''péllas 'skin').

Noun

(en noun)

That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

An animal skin, hide.

* Shakespeare:

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells , you know, are greasy.

(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Verb

(en verb)

(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

* 2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric , page 296:

To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.

(wikipedia fell)

Etymology 3

From (etyl) fell, . Compare (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.

* 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells,

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls beneath the fells.

* {{quote-book

, year=1886 , author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr , title=The Squire of Sandal-Side : A Pastoral Romance , work= citation , page= , passage=Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.}}

* 1971 Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place

She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.

A wild field or upland moor.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) fel, . See felon.

Adjective

(er)

Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

while we devise fell tortures for thy faults

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,

And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.

(label) Eager; earnest; intent.

* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)

I am so fell to my business.

Adverb

(en adverb)

Sharply; fiercely.

Derived terms

* (l)

Noun

(-)

Gall; anger; melancholy.

* Spenser:

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell .

* XIX c. ,

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

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Etymology 5

Noun

(mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

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