What does crash mean?
Definitions for crash
kræʃcrash
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word crash.
Princeton's WordNet
clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crashnoun
a loud resonant repeating noise
"he could hear the clang of distant bells"
crash, wrecknoun
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
crash, collapsenoun
a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
crash, smashnoun
the act of colliding with something
"his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
crashverb
(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"
crashverb
fall or come down violently
"The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
crashverb
move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
"The car crashed through the glass door"
crash, ramverb
undergo damage or destruction on impact
"the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
crashverb
move violently as through a barrier
"The terrorists crashed the gate"
crash, break up, break apartverb
break violently or noisily; smash;
crashverb
occupy, usually uninvited
"My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
crashverb
make a sudden loud sound
"the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"
barge in, crash, gate-crashverb
enter uninvited; informal
"let's crash the party!"
crashverb
cause to crash
"The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
crash, dashverb
hurl or thrust violently
"He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
crashverb
undergo a sudden and severe downturn
"the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"
crash, go downverb
stop operating
"My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
doss, doss down, crashverb
sleep in a convenient place
"You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Crashnoun
A loud sudden mixed sound, as of many things broken at the same time.
Etymology: from the verb.
Senseless Ilium,
Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
Stoops to his base; and, with a hideous crash,
Takes prisoner Pyrrhus’ ear. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.Moralizing sat I by the hazard-table: I look’d upon the uncertainty of riches, the decay of beauty, and the crash of worlds, with as much contempt as ever Plato did. Alexander Pope.
To Crashverb
To break or bruise.
My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montague, I pray you come and crash a cup of wine. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
To CRASHverb
Etymology: a word probably formed from the thing.
There shall be a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.
When convulsions cleave the lab’ring earth,
Before the dismal yawn appears, the ground
Trembles and heaves, the nodding houses crash. Smith.
ChatGPT
crash
A crash is an abrupt and often devastating event characterized by a significant failure or breakdown. In various contexts, it can refer to a collision or a fall, a sudden decrease in economic value, or a severe malfunction of a system, program, or device, especially a computer. Furthermore, it can also pertain to a sudden, often uncontrolled, decline in health or mental and emotional stability.
Webster Dictionary
Crash
to break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence
Crashverb
to make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise
Crashverb
to break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof
Crashnoun
a loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once
Crashnoun
ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise
Crashnoun
coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels
Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]
Wikidata
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
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.]
Crash
krash, n. a coarse strong linen.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4288
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Nouns Frequency: #1691
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'crash' in Verbs Frequency: #677
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crash in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of crash in a Sentence
People are surprised by how quickly the U.S. is shutting in production and that's exactly what we need in order to support prices, there's another 10 days before the June contract expires ... if the WTI contract can avoid a crash going into expiry, hopefully we've seen the bottom.
Franklin County Sheriffs Office SWAT:
While investigating this fatal traffic crash it was very clear to investigators that Mr. Ellis is one of the worst habitual repeat offenders of drunk driving we have seen, he has no regard for human life.
What happens if there’s a disaster of some sort ? And a disaster does n’t need to be very big in western Massachusetts, we need all these logistics to be able to step into place and handle these events and, meanwhile, 911 is still being called for the heart attack, the baby being born, the car crash. … We have one trauma center in western Massachusetts. One level one trauma center.
After (the) Smolensk (plane crash), we can say that we were ... the first great victim of terrorism in the modern conflict, that's playing out right before our eyes.
Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto:
I made it clear to Uber officials after the Arizona crash that a full federal investigation had to be completed, with strong rules for keeping streets safe, before I would agree with the company to begin testing on Pittsburgh streets again.
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Translations for crash
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- حادث إصطدام, تحطمArabic
- крушэ́нне, ава́рыя, катастро́фаBelarusian
- катастро́фа, трясък, катастрофирам, разбивам, провал, срив, сриване, грохот, крах, с трясък, строшавам, сривам се, внезапноBulgarian
- sammenstød, flystyrt, krash, overnatte, lyn-, crash, nedbrud, forceret, crashe, bragDanish
- Zusammenstoß, anprallen, Absturz, Krachen, abstürzenGerman
- kraŝiEsperanto
- choque, chocarSpanish
- pika-, törmäys, tappura, kolari, intensiivi-, rysähdys, romahdus, sortua, kuokkia, kaatua, onnettomuus, rohdin, kaatuminen, törmätä, romahtaa, lauma, romuttaa, törmäyttääFinnish
- accident, descente, planter, plantage, krach, écrasement, s'écraser, pieuterFrench
- baleset, szerencsétlenségHungarian
- menabrakIndonesian
- blocco, fracasso, imbucarsi, incidente, scontro, crolloItalian
- クラッシュ, 激突, 墜落, クラッシュする, 衝突, 衝突するJapanese
- 추락, 충돌Korean
- ruinaLatin
- bäikéierenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- computercrash, knal, neerstorten, beurscrash, botsing, crash, binnenvallen, vastlopenDutch
- wypadek, krach, awaria, grzmot, kraksaPolish
- batida, falha, colidir, falhar, bater, chocar, invadirPortuguese
- гро́хот, крах, врезаться, грохнуться, сломать, сломаться, круше́ние, поло́мка, разбиться, разбить, грохнуть, нагрянуть, переночевать, ава́рия, катастро́фаRussian
- våldgästa, kraschaSwedish
- ава́рія, катастро́фаUkrainian
- tai nạnVietnamese
- 碰撞Chinese
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