Difference between Smash and Bang

What is the difference between Smash and Bang?

Smash as a noun is the sound of a violent impact. while Bang as a noun is a sudden percussive noise.

Smash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The sound of a violent impact. A traffic accident. Something very successful. A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To break (something brittle) violently. To hit extremely hard. To ruin completely and suddenly. To defeat overwhelmingly. To deform through continuous pressure. To be destroyed by being smashed.

Example sentence: I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

Bang

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.To engage in sexual intercourse.To hammer or to hit anything hard.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sudden percussive noise.A strike upon an object causing such a noise.An explosion.(especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead. (British: fringe)The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!An act of sexual intercourse.plural: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease (a corruption of the alternate name "Bang's disease")An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.An explosive product, in miningAn abrupt left turn, in Boston slang; the opposite of this, an abrupt right turn, is a hang

Example sentence: Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!

We hope you now know whether to use Smash or Bang in your sentence.

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