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Definition of 'CRASH'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) crash
to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.

2.  crash
to break or fall to pieces with noise.

3.  crash
(of moving objects) to collide, esp. violently and noisily.

4.  crash
to strike with a crash.

5.  crash
to land an aircraft in such a way that damage is unavoidable.

6.  crash
to collapse or fail suddenly, as a financial enterprise.

7.  crash
Slang.

8.  crash
to sleep.

9.  crash
to stay or live temporarily without payment:
I crashed with my brother for a week.

10.  crash
to fall asleep.

11.  crash
Slang. to experience unpleasant sensations, as sudden exhaustion or depression, when a drug, esp. an amphetamine, wears off.

12.  crash
Med. Slang. to suffer cardiac arrest.

13.  crash
(of a plant or animal population) to decline rapidly.

14.  crash
(of a computer) to shut down because of a malfunction of hardware or software.

15. (v.t.) crash
to break into pieces violently and noisily; shatter.

16.  crash
to cause (a moving vehicle) to collide with or strike another object violently (usu. fol. by into):
He crashed his car into a tree.

17.  crash
to force or drive with violence and noise (usu. fol. by in, through, out, etc.):
to crash a truck through a gate.

18.  crash
to cause (an aircraft) to sustain severe damage in landing.

19.  crash
to enter or force one's way into without invitation, payment, or pass.

20. (n.) crash
an act or instance of crashing.

21.  crash
a sudden loud noise, as of something being violently smashed.

22.  crash
a collision, as of automobiles or trains.

23.  crash
the emergency landing of an aircraft, space vehicle, etc., usu. causing severe damage.

24.  crash
a sudden general collapse of a business, the stock market, etc.

25.  crash
a sudden, rapid decline in the size of a plant or animal population.

26. (adj.) crash
characterized by an intensive effort, esp. to deal with an emergency, meet a deadline, etc.:
a crash plan for flood relief; a crash diet.

27. (n.) crash
a plain-weave fabric of rough, irregular, or lumpy yarns.

Etymology: (1805–15; prob. < Russ krashenína painted or dyed coarse linen =kráshen(y&ibreve;) painted (ptp. of krásit&hamza; to paint) +-ina n. suffix)

Definition of 'CRASH'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crash
a loud resonant repeating noise
"he could hear the clang of distant bells"

2. (noun) crash, wreck
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

3. (noun) crash, collapse
a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

4. (noun) crash, smash
the act of colliding with something
"his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"

5. (verb) crash
(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
"the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since"

6. (verb) crash
fall or come down violently
"The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

7. (verb) crash
move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
"The car crashed through the glass door"

8. (verb) crash, ram
undergo damage or destruction on impact
"the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"

9. (verb) crash
move violently as through a barrier
"The terrorists crashed the gate"

10. (verb) crash, break up, break apart
break violently or noisily; smash;

11. (verb) crash
occupy, usually uninvited
"My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"

12. (verb) crash
make a sudden loud sound
"the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"

13. (verb) barge in, crash, gate-crash
enter uninvited; informal
"let's crash the party!"

14. (verb) crash
cause to crash
"The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"

15. (verb) crash, dash
hurl or thrust violently
"He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"

16. (verb) crash
undergo a sudden and severe downturn
"the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"

17. (verb) crash, go down
stop operating
"My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

18. (verb) doss, doss down, crash
sleep in a convenient place
"You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"

Definition of 'CRASH'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) crash
to hit or cause to hit forcefully against sth
A plane had crashed earlier that day.; The tree branch came crashing through the roof.; He crashed the truck into the barrier.

2.  crash
to make a loud noise
the drums and cymbals crashed; the gate crashed shut

3.  crash
(of a computer or network) to stop working temporarily
The computer crashed, and I lost my work.

4.  crash
(of stocks, shares, or the stock market) to lose a lot of value quickly
in 1929 when the stock market crashed

5.  crash
to sleep
You can crash at my house.

6. (noun) crash
a sudden loud noise
The bookcase fell onto the table with a crash.

7.  crash
when a vehicle hits sth forcefully
a car crash

8.  crash
a sudden great loss of value in stock market, stocks, or shares
***the crash of the stock market

9.  crash
the failure of a computer system
***We had a network crash last month.

Definition of 'CRASH'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) CRASH
a loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once

2. (noun) CRASH
ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise

3. (noun) CRASH
coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels

4. CRASH
to break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence

5. (verb) CRASH
to make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise

6. (verb) CRASH
to break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof

Definitions of 'CRASH'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. CRASH
1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). “Three lusers lost their files in last night's disk crash.” A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a head crash, whereas the term system crash usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault.

2. v. To fail suddenly. “Has the system just crashed?” “Something crashed the OS!” See down. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). “Those idiots playing SPACEWAR crashed the system.”

3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long hacking run; see gronk out.

Translation of 'CRASH'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a noise as of heavy things breaking or falling on something hard I heard a crash, and looked round to see that he'd dropped all the plates.
Afrikaans: slag, lawaai, uitbarsting	Arabic: صَوتُ التَّصادُم	Bulgarian: грохот
Brazilian: estrondo	Czech: třesk, hřmot, řinčení	German: das Krachen
Danish: brag	Greek: πάταγος	Spanish: estruendo, estrépito
Estonian: kolin, ragin	Farsi: صدای افتادن و شکستگی	Finnish: rysähdys
French: fracas	Hebrew: קוֹל הִתנָגשוּת	Hindi: धमाका
Croatian: lomljava	Hungarian: csattanás	Indonesian: bunyi keras dari sesuatu
Icelandic: brak, braml	Italian: frastuono	Japanese: 大音響
Korean: 깨어지는 소리	Lithuanian: trenksmas	Latvian: blīkšķis; rībiens
Malay: berdentum	Dutch: lawaai	Norwegian: brak
Polish: łomot	Persian: صدای افتادن و شکستگی	Pashto: تصادم ، د ماتیدو غږ
Portuguese: estrondo	Romanian: pocnet	Russian: грохот
Slovak: hrmot	Slovenian: trušč	Serbian: tresak
Swedish: brak, krasch, skräll	Thai: เสียงดังที่เกิดจากการชน	Turkish: şangırtı, gümbürtü
Taiwanese: 撞擊聲	Ukrainian: гуркіт; тріск	Urdu: دهماك‍ہ کی آواز، ٹ‍وٹ‍ن‍ے
Vietnamese: tiếng đổ loảng xoảng	Chinese: 撞击声
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