Crash vs Roll - What's the difference?
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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.
(ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up .
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
(ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
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, title= (chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
(US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
* 2006 , Chris McKenna, "Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens", Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321].
(gaming, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
(gaming) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
To have a rolling aspect.
(gaming) To create a new character in a role-playing game.
(computing) To generate a random number.
To turn over and over.
To tumble in gymnastics.
(nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
To beat up.
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(slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
(slang) To betray secrets.
(informal) To act.
* 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):
(slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
* 2000 , Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance , Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595156115, page 15:
* 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3,
* unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online , Lexington Books (2007), ISBN 978-0-7391-1455-1
(of a camera) To film.
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, title= To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
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To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
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The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
That which rolls; a roller.
# A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
# One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
# That which is rolled up.
# A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
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# Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
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# A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
# A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
A heavy, reverberatory sound.
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:
the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .
A training match for a fighting dog.
In transitive terms the difference between crash and roll
is that crash is to severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else while roll is to beat up.In transitive slang terms the difference between crash and roll
is that crash is (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation while roll is to cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.In intransitive terms the difference between crash and roll
is that crash is 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 while roll is to spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.In lang=en terms the difference between crash and roll
is that crash is plain linen while roll is to be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as {{term|ecstasy|lang=en}}).As an adjective crash
is quick, fast, intensive.crash
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.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)roll
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Verb
(en verb)- And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls', and '''rolls''', and ' rolls .
- The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.
- The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.
- The pastry rolls well.
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- "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
- Let's roll !
- Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”
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- The crowd was rolling' on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was ' rolling .
- So the quesion is When you are rolling' what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m ' rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds
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- The years roll on.
- what different sorrows did within thee roll
- The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.
Derived terms
* let's roll * rollable * roller * roll in the aisles * roll off * roll off the tongue * roll on * roll out * roll-out * roll-over * roll over * roll the dice * roll upNoun
(en noun)- the roll of a ball
- Look at the roll of the waves.
- to pass rails through the rolls
- a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.
- The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
- The roll and list of that army doth remain.
- a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon
- Hear the roll of cannon.
- Hear the roll of thunder.
- Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.
- Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
- Make your roll.
- Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
- He is on a roll tonight.