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

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

3. Crash(verb)

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

4. Crash(noun)

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

5. Crash(noun)

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

6. Crash(noun)

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

Origin: [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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How to pronounce crash?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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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. Chris Haile:

   did we crash Ellie?

2. Sean Patrick Maloney:

   Todays crash hits home.

3. Benjamin Jackson:

   It's better to crash than to freeze

4. Mark Giuliano:

   It was certainly a high-impact crash.

5. Elizabeth Barney:

   It is a very horrific and tragic crash.

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