Difference between Collapse and Crash

What is the difference between Collapse and Crash?

Collapse as a verb is to fall down suddenly; to cave in while Crash as a verb is to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

Collapse

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall down suddenly; to cave in To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown To fold compactly For several batsmen to get out in quick succession To cause something to collapse.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of collapsing Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)

Example sentence: The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Crash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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 company of rhinoceroses.Plain linen.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.(via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.To terminate extraordinarily.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.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: quick, fast, intensive

Example sentence: You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

We hope you now know whether to use Collapse or Crash in your sentence.

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