What's the difference between crash and prang?

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.

Prang


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Northern and slot blot analyses with alpha-32P labeled ang-n cDNA (pRang 3) demonstrated that castration lowered ang-n mRNA levels in the male kidney by greater than or equal to 60% compared with control, suggesting that androgen may be involved with renal ang-n gene regulation.
  • (2) In contrast to earlier studies led by Prange and Murphy, L-tryptophan was found to be no better than placebo.
  • (3) After the studies conducted by PRANGE and KASTIN in 1972, we tried to verify whether T.R.F.
  • (4) We have employed the mouse submandibular gland renin complementary DNA (pDD-1D2) and the rat liver angiotensinogen complementary DNA (pRang 3) to demonstrate that renin and angiotensinogen messenger RNAs are expressed in the mouse kidney, submandibular gland, heart, adrenal, brain, and testis.
  • (5) Rat liver angiotensinogen cDNA (pRang 3) and mouse renin cDNA (pDD-1D2) were used to identify angiotensinogen and renin mRNA sequences in rat kidney cortex and medulla in rats on high and low salt diet.
  • (6) This procedure corresponds to the determination of intrathecally produced Treponema pallidum antibodies in neurolues from quantitative TPHA values and total IgG in serum and CSF (ITpA Index according to Prange).
  • (7) The great actor dying alone denies us this required narrative prang.
  • (8) "And then some days I have absolute prang-outs of fear where I'm like, Oh.
  • (9) I tried to shake it off but it happened again and again – once, scarily, causing a minor prang on a country road (to the kind man in the Volvo with the labrador in the back: despite your protestations, it was my fault and I'm sorry).