different between crash vs blast

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æ?/

• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) +? -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

Noun

crash (plural crashes)

1. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

2. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

3. (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

   Synonym: abend

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

5. (informal) A comedown from a drug.
6. (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
   • p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ?ISBN, page 103

     One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”

     […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.

   • 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19

     The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.

   • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126

     Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.

   • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23

     The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

crash (not comparable)

1. Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

   crash course

   crash diet

Translations

Verb

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

1. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
2. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

3. (transitive, slang) Short for gatecrash.

4. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
5. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

6. (slang) To give, as a favor.
7. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
8. (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.

   Synonym: bomb

9. (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

10. (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. (transitive) To hit or strike with force
12. (medicine, of a patient's condition) To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
13. To make a sudden loud noise.

Translations

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin; perhaps compare Russian ?????????? (krašenína, “coarse linen”).

Noun

crash (uncountable)

1. (fibre) A type of rough linen.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rasch, chars

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /kr??/
• Hyphenation: crash
• Homophone: crèche

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English crash.

Noun

crash m (plural crashes, diminutive crashje n)

1. crash, collision, esp. when involving aircraft
2. economic crash, especially in relation to stock exchanges

   Synonym: krach

3. computer crash

Derived terms

• beurscrash
• computercrash

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

crash

1. first-person singular present indicative of crashen
2. imperative of crashen

French

Etymology

From English crash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?/

Noun

crash m (plural crashs)

1. (of an aircraft) crash landing
2. (economics) crash
3. (computing) crash

Derived terms

• crasher

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?/, [?k?a?]

Noun

crash m (plural crashes)

1. (economics) crash
2. (computing) crash

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bläst, IPA^(key): /bl??st/
• (US) enPR: bl?st, IPA^(key): /blæst/
• Rhymes: -??st
• Rhymes: -æst

Etymology 1

From Middle English blast from Old English bl?st (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?staz, *bl?stuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”). More at blow.

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

2. A violent gust of wind.

   • And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.

3. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
4. A hit from a pipe.
5. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace

   many tons of iron were melted at a blast

   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146:

     Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.

6. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
7. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
8. An explosive charge for blasting.
   • 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts

     Large blasts are often used.

9. A loud, sudden sound.
   • c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field

     the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
10. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

    • By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
11. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.

    We had a blast at the party last night.

12. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.

    an e-mail blast; a fax blast

13. A flatulent disease of sheep.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English bl?stan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?stijan?. Compare Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).

Verb

blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)

1. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
4. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).

   Blast right through it.

5. (transitive) To curse; to damn.

   Blast it! Foiled again.

6. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).

   Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

7. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
8. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.

   My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.

9. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
10. (transitive) To blight or wither.

    A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

11. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.

    The bud blasted in the blossom.

12. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Italian: blastare

Translations

Interjection

blast

1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment; damn

Usage notes

Can be used on its own or in the form "blast it!".

Translations

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ or sprout”).

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

1. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

Derived terms

• blast cell
• blastocyte
• blastoma

Translations

Etymology 4

From BLAST (an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

Verb

blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)

1. (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
   • 2004, Andreas Bommarius and Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, p. 425:

     Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.

Alternative forms

• BLAST

Anagrams

• Balts, blats

German

Verb

blast

1. inflection of blasen:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ, sprout”).

Noun

blast m (genitive singular blast, nominative plural blastaí)

1. (cytology) blast

Declension

Derived terms

• -blast
• blastchill (“blast cell”)

Mutation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blaste, blæst, blest

Etymology

From Old English bl?st, from Proto-Germanic *bl?stuz; equivalent to blasen +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blast/, /bl??st/

Noun

blast (plural blastes)

1. A blast; a sudden and forceful motion of wind.
2. One's breathing or respiring; the act of respiration.
3. The blast produced by a musical instrument.
4. An emission or expulsion of fire or flames.
5. The sound produced by thunder or storms.
6. (rare) The making of a pronouncement or proclamation.
7. (rare) One's spiritual essence; the soul.
8. (rare) A striking or attack.
9. (rare) Flatulence; the making of a fart.

Derived terms

• blasten

Descendants

• English: blast
• Scots: blast

References

• “blast, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-27.

Swedish

Noun

blast c (definite form blasten)

1. (uncountable) The stem and leaves of a vegetable, of which you're only supposed to eat the root. E.g. in potatoes or carrots.