The difference between Crash and Kip

When used as nouns, crash means an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident, whereas kip means the untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

When used as verbs, crash means to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently, whereas kip means to sleep.

Crash is also adjective with the meaning: quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crash and Kip

  1. Crash as a noun:

    An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

    Examples:

    "She broke two bones in her body in a car crash."

    "Nobody survived the plane crash"

  2. Crash as a noun:

    A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

    Examples:

    "My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it."

  3. Crash as a noun:

    A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.

    Examples:

    "The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals."

  4. Crash as a noun:

    A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

    Examples:

    "the stock market crash"

  5. Crash as a noun:

    A comedown of a drug.

  6. Crash as a noun:

    A group of rhinoceroses.

  7. Crash as a noun:

    dysphoria

  1. Crash as an adjective:

    quick, fast, intensive, impromptu

    Examples:

    "[[crash course]]"

    "crash diet"

  1. Crash as a verb (transitive):

    To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

  2. Crash as a verb (transitive):

    To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

    Examples:

    "I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs."

  3. Crash as a verb (transitive, slang):

    (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable intentions.

    Examples:

    "We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it."

  4. Crash as a verb (transitive, management):

    To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

  5. Crash as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

    Examples:

    "Hey [[dude]], can I crash at your [[pad]]?"

  6. Crash as a verb (slang):

    To give, as a favor.

  7. Crash as a verb (slang):

    To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.

  8. Crash as a verb (computing, software, intransitive):

    To terminate extraordinarily.

    Examples:

    "If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop."

  9. Crash as a verb (computing, software, transitive):

    To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

    Examples:

    "Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop."

  10. Crash as a verb (intransitive):

    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.

  11. Crash as a verb (transitive):

    To hit or strike with force

  12. Crash as a verb (medicine, of a [[patient]]'s [[condition]]):

    To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.

  13. Crash as a verb:

    To make a sudden loud noise.

    Examples:

    "Thunder crashed directly overhead."

  1. Crash as a noun (fibre):

    A type of rough linen.

  1. Kip as a noun:

    The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

  2. Kip as a noun:

    A bundle or set of such hides.

  3. Kip as a noun (obsolete):

    A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

  4. Kip as a noun:

    The leather made from such hide; kip leather.

  1. Kip as a noun (informal, chiefly UK):

    A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

  2. Kip as a noun (informal, chiefly UK):

    Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

    Examples:

    "I’m just going for my afternoon kip."

  3. Kip as a noun (informal, chiefly UK):

    A very untidy house or room.

  4. Kip as a noun (informal, chiefly UK, dated):

    A brothel.

  1. Kip as a verb (informal, chiefly UK):

    To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

    Examples:

    "Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed."

  1. Kip as a verb (transitive, dialectal, Scotland):

    To snatch; take up hastily; filch

  2. Kip as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To hold or keep (together)

  3. Kip as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To conduct oneself; act

  1. Kip as a noun:

    A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

  2. Kip as a noun:

    A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

  3. Kip as a noun (rare, nonstandard):

    A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

  1. Kip as a noun:

    The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

  1. Kip as a noun (gymnastics):

    A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

  2. Kip as a noun (Australia, games, two-up):

    A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

  3. Kip as a noun (Scotland):

    A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

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