accident vs prang

accident

noun
  • A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) 

  • Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. 

  • A person born from an unintended pregnancy. 

  • A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case. 

  • An instance of incontinence. 

  • An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. 

  • Chance; random chance. 

  • Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence. 

  • An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause. 

  • A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground. 

  • A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. 

  • An unintended pregnancy. 

  • Any chance event. 

  • casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. 

adj
  • Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident. 

prang

noun
  • An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. 

  • A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand. 

  • Crack cocaine. 

verb
  • To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. 

  • To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). 

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