different between punch vs crash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English punchen, partially from Old French ponchonner (“to punch”), from ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”); and partially from Middle English punchen, a syncopated variant of punischen ("to punish"; see punish). Also influenced by Middle English punchon ("a punch"; see puncheon).

Noun

punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)

1. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
2. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
3. (uncountable) Impact.

Synonyms

• (strike with the fist): blow, box, bunch of fives (Britain)
• (power, strength): oomph, pep

Hyponyms

• (strike with the fist): jab, hook, king hit, uppercut, pounding

Derived terms

Related terms

• puncheon

Translations

See also

• (A strike with the fist): slap

Verb

punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)

1. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.

   If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.

2. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
3. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
4. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
5. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.

   He punched a hit into shallow left field.

6. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
7. To thrust against; to poke.

   to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow

Synonyms

• (To strike with the fist): box, slug

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortened form of puncheon, from Old French ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”).

Noun

punch (plural punches)

1. (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
   1. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
2. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
3. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
4. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Translations

See also

• centrepunch, centre punch, centerpunch
• hole punch
• nail punch
• paper punch
• three-hole punch

Verb

punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)

1. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
2. To mark a ticket.

Hypernyms

• (to create a hole): perforate, pierce

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Hindi ???? (p??c, “five”), because of the drink's original five ingredients (spirits, water, lemon juice, sugar, and spice), from Sanskrit ?????? (páñcan). Doublet of five, cinque, pimp, and Pompeii.

Noun

punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)

2. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 4

From Punch.

Noun

punch (plural punches)

1. (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• pons (obsolete)
• puns (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English punch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n?/
• Hyphenation: punch

Noun

punch m (uncountable)

1. punch (beverage)

French

Alternative forms

• ponch (1990 reform spelling)

Etymology

From English punch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/

Noun

punch m (plural punchs)

1. punch (drink)

Further reading

• “punch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

punch m (plural punches)

1. punch (drink)

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