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
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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"
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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."
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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."
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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"
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Crash as a noun:
A comedown of a drug.
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Crash as a noun:
A group of rhinoceroses.
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Crash as a noun:
dysphoria
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Crash as an adjective:
quick, fast, intensive, impromptu
Examples:
"[[crash course]]"
"crash diet"
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Crash as a verb (transitive):
To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
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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."
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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."
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Crash as a verb (transitive, management):
To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
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Crash as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
Examples:
"Hey [[dude]], can I crash at your [[pad]]?"
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Crash as a verb (slang):
To give, as a favor.
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Crash as a verb (slang):
To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
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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."
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Crash as a verb (computing, software, transitive):
To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
Examples:
"Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop."
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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.
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Crash as a verb (transitive):
To hit or strike with force
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Crash as a verb (medicine, of a [[patient]]'s [[condition]]):
To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
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Crash as a verb:
To make a sudden loud noise.
Examples:
"Thunder crashed directly overhead."
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Crash as a noun (fibre):
A type of rough linen.
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Thud as a noun:
The sound of a dull impact.
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Thud as a noun (US, military, dated, _, slang):
Republic jet ground attack fighter.
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Thud as a verb:
To make the sound of a dull impact.