What's the difference between cash and crash?

Cash


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
  • (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
  • (v. t.) To disband.
  • (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (3) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (6) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (7) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
  • (10) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
  • (11) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (12) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (13) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (14) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
  • (15) Vimeo has been less successful in convincing its audience to part ways with actual cash.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
  • (18) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (19) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
  • (20) He believed retail deposits, where cash is not being held for investments, were currently "broadly stable".

Crash


Definition:

  • (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
  • (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
  • (n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
  • (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
  • (n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
  • (3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (4) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
  • (5) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
  • (6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (7) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (8) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (9) Stephen Tolbert died in a plane crash soon after and the case was closed.
  • (10) Those two ideas came together with a big crash and I began to apply what I had learned about sound to the moving image.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
  • (12) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
  • (13) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
  • (15) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
  • (16) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
  • (17) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
  • (18) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
  • (19) In Lughaya, Hassan Barre Gas raises his hand to the sky as he describes the wave that crashed into his home on 5 November.
  • (20) More attention should therefore be focused on protecting infants from injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes.