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Creak vs Crash - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between creak and crash

is that creak is to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances while 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.

In transitive terms the difference between creak and crash

is that creak is to produce a creaking sound with while crash is to severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

As an adjective crash is

quick, fast, intensive.

creak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a prolonged sharp grating]] or [[squeak, squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
  • * 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary), Part III, Chapter 10:
  • Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
  • * 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw):
  • He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
  • To produce a creaking sound with.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
  • * 20th century , Theodore Roethke, On the Road to Woodlawn
  • I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,
    The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses

    Derived terms

    * creaky

    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.
  • dysphoria
  • 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.