The difference between Crash and Thud

When used as nouns, crash means an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident, whereas thud means the sound of a dull impact.

When used as verbs, crash means to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently, whereas thud means to make the sound of a dull impact.


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

check bellow for the other definitions of Crash and Thud

  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. Thud as a noun:

    The sound of a dull impact.

  2. Thud as a noun (US, military, dated, _, slang):

    Republic jet ground attack fighter.

  1. Thud as a verb:

    To make the sound of a dull impact.

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