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Difference Between Crash and Resound

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Crash

To break violently or noisily; smash
The dishes crashed to pieces on the floor.

Resound

To make a loud, prolonged, or reverberating sound
The judge's gavel resounded in the courtroom.

Crash

To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact
The car crashed into a tree.

Resound

To be filled with sound; reverberate
The schoolyard resounded with the laughter of children.

Crash

To make a sudden loud noise
The cymbals crash at the end of each measure.
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Resound

To be talked about, celebrated, or extolled
News that resounded throughout the nation.

Crash

To move noisily or so as to cause damage
Went crashing through the woods.

Resound

To send back (sound).

Crash

To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

Resound

To utter or emit loudly.
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Crash

(Computers) To stop functioning due to a crash.

Resound

To celebrate or praise, as in verse or song.

Crash

(Slang) To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

Resound

(transitive)

Crash

To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

Resound

To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.

Crash

To fall asleep from exhaustion.

Resound

Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.

Crash

To cause to crash
Crashed the truck into the signpost.

Resound

To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.

Crash

To dash to pieces; smash
Crashed the ice with a sledgehammer.

Resound

(intransitive)

Crash

(Informal) To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

Resound

Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.

Crash

A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking
She looked up when she heard the crash outside.

Resound

Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.

Crash

A smashing to pieces.

Resound

Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.

Crash

A collision, as between two automobiles.

Resound

(figuratively)

Crash

A sudden severe downturn
A market crash.
A population crash.

Resound

(transitive) To echo or repeat (a sound).

Crash

A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

Resound

(intransitive) To sound again.

Crash

A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

Resound

(countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.

Crash

(Slang) Mental depression after drug-taking.

Resound

(uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.

Crash

A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.

Resound

To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

Crash

Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

Resound

To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.

Crash

Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish
A crash course on income-tax preparation.
A crash diet.

Resound

To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.

Crash

A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
After the lightning came the crash of thunder.

Resound

To be mentioned much and loudly.

Crash

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
Nobody survived the plane crash.

Resound

To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.

Crash

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

Resound

To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
Albion's cliffs resound the rur ay.

Crash

(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
The stock market crash

Resound

To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
The man for wisdom's various arts renowned,Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound.

Crash

(informal) A comedown from a drug.

Resound

Return of sound; echo.

Crash

(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.

Resound

Ring or echo with sound;
The hall resounded with laughter

Crash

(ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

Resound

Emit a noise

Crash

(textiles) A type of rough linen.

Crash

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
Crash course
Crash diet

Crash

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.

Crash

(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.

Crash

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

Crash

To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

Crash

To give, as a favor.

Crash

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

Crash

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

Crash

To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

Crash

(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.

Crash

(transitive) To hit or strike with force

Crash

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

Crash

To make a sudden loud noise.
Thunder crashed directly overhead.

Crash

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.

Crash

To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city.

Crash

To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Crash

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.

Crash

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Crash

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Crash

A loud resonant repeating noise;
He could hear the clang of distant bells

Crash

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);
They are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane

Crash

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

Crash

The act of colliding with something;
His crash through the window
The fullback's smash into the defensive line

Crash

(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative;
The crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since

Crash

Fall or come down violently;
The branch crashed down on my car
The plane crashed in the sea

Crash

Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise;
The car crashed through the glass door

Crash

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;
The plane crashed into the ocean
The car crashed into the lamp post

Crash

Move violently as through a barrier;
The terrorists crashed the gate

Crash

Break violently or noisily; smash;

Crash

Occupy, usually uninvited;
My son's friends crashed our house last weekend

Crash

Enter uninvited; informal;
Let's crash the party!

Crash

Cause to crash;
The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace

Crash

Hurl or thrust violently;
He dashed the plate against the wall
Waves were dashing against the rock

Crash

Undergo a sudden and severe downturn;
The economy crashed
Will the stock market crash again?

Crash

Stop operating;
My computer crashed last night
The system goes down at least once a week

Crash

Sleep in a convenient place;
You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable

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