Crash vs Screech - What's the difference?
crash | screech |
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.
A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
(qualifier) Newfoundland rum.
A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
To make such a sound.
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(figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
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As nouns the difference between crash and screech
is that crash is an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident while screech is a high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.As verbs the difference between crash and screech
is that crash is to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently while screech is to make such a sound.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
(-)screech
English
Noun
Derived terms
* screech bird * screecher * screech hawk * screech owlVerb
(es)citation, page= , passage=AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.}}
citation, page= , passage=You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again. }}