different between dong vs crash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).

Noun

dong (plural dongs or dong)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ?

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. (slang) A penis.
   • 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)

     Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
     Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?

2. (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Related terms

• ding-dong

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.

Translations

Verb

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Etymology 4

Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

Anagrams

• Gond, gnod

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Syncope of dorang.

Pronoun

dong

1. they

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dung?. Cognate to English dung.

Noun

dong m (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure

   Synonym: mest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do??]
• Rhymes: -o??
• Homophone: ??ng

Verb

dong

1. (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
2. (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

• ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)

References

Further reading

• dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Mandarin

Romanization

dong

1. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

dong

1. Alternative form of donge

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)

1. (slang) condom

Portuguese

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zaw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]

Verb

dong

1. drive, escort

Noun

(classifier cây) dong

1. Phrynium placentarium

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù??

Etymology

From dyngj.

Noun

dong m (definite dongen)

1. droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn

Zou

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to solicit

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to intercept

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dóng

1. (transitive) to hinder

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dòng

1. (intransitive) to ask

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63

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