Definitions for crash
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crash(noun)

   a loud resonant repeating noise

   "he could hear the clang of distant bells"

2. crash, wreck(noun)

   a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

   "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

3. crash, collapse(noun)

   a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

4. crash, smash(noun)

   the act of colliding with something

   "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"

5. crash(verb)

   (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. crash(verb)

   fall or come down violently

   "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

7. crash(verb)

   move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

   "The car crashed through the glass door"

8. crash, ram(verb)

   undergo damage or destruction on impact

   "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"

9. crash(verb)

   move violently as through a barrier

   "The terrorists crashed the gate"

10. crash, break up, break apart(verb)

    break violently or noisily; smash;

11. crash(verb)

    occupy, usually uninvited

    "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"

12. crash(verb)

    make a sudden loud sound

    "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"

13. barge in, crash, gate-crash(verb)

    enter uninvited; informal

    "let's crash the party!"

14. crash(verb)

    cause to crash

    "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"

15. crash, dash(verb)

    hurl or thrust violently

    "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"

16. crash(verb)

    undergo a sudden and severe downturn

    "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"

17. crash, go down(verb)

    stop operating

    "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

18. doss, doss down, crash(verb)

    sleep in a convenient place

    "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crash

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

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

2. Crash(verb)

   to make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

3. Crash(verb)

   to break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

4. Crash(noun)

   a loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

5. Crash(noun)

   ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

6. Crash(noun)

   coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels

   Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crash

   Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crash

   krash, n. a noise as of things breaking or being crushed by falling; the shock of two bodies meeting: the failure of a commercial undertaking.—v.i. to fall to pieces with a loud noise: to move with such a noise.—v.t. to dash in pieces. [From the sound.]

2. Crash

   krash, n. a coarse strong linen.

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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1. crash

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4288

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Nouns Frequency: #1691

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Verbs Frequency: #677

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crash in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of crash in a Sentence

1. Paul Hayes:

   We have had a couple of events recently but in general jetliners don't crash during the cruise.

2. Host Amy Schumer:

   This is going to be the party of the year. I just hope Harrison Ford doesn't crash it.

3. David Mearns:

   With an interim report due to be delivered within a month of the accident, authorities have expressed hopes a remote underwater vehicle provides evidence. FRENCH SOCCER CLUB DEMAND PAYMENT OVER $ 19M EMILIANO SALA TRANSFER AS DIVERS SEARCH FOR HIS BODY The formal search was called off within three days of the plane disappearing from radar last month. It took a campaign by Salas family to raise funds for a private search by American-born, shipwreck-hunting specialist David Mearns, who located the aircraft within hours on Sunday in conjunction with air crash investigators. David Mearns told BBC Radio Wales that finding the pilots body would be difficult. Ive been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.

4. John Bayne:

   Nobody has broken more phones in the lab than Corning, it's almost equivalent to crash testing for vehicles. We're simulating the most stringent conditions we can to make the product better in scenarios that you might see in the real world.

5. Aitan Goelman:

   His conduct was at least significantly responsible for the order imbalance that in turn was one of the conditions that led to the flash crash.

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