Definitions for crash
kræʃcrash

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crashnoun

   a loud resonant repeating noise

   "he could hear the clang of distant bells"

2. crash, wrecknoun

   a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

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

3. crash, collapsenoun

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

4. crash, smashnoun

   the act of colliding with something

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

5. 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"

6. crashverb

   fall or come down violently

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

7. crashverb

   move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

   "The car crashed through the glass door"

8. crash, ramverb

   undergo damage or destruction on impact

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

9. crashverb

   move violently as through a barrier

   "The terrorists crashed the gate"

10. crash, break up, break apartverb

    break violently or noisily; smash;

11. crashverb

    occupy, usually uninvited

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

12. crashverb

    make a sudden loud sound

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

13. barge in, crash, gate-crashverb

    enter uninvited; informal

    "let's crash the party!"

14. crashverb

    cause to crash

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

15. crash, dashverb

    hurl or thrust violently

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

16. crashverb

    undergo a sudden and severe downturn

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

17. crash, go downverb

    stop operating

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

18. doss, doss down, crashverb

    sleep in a convenient place

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. 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.

   Mr. William Warburton has it, crush a cup of wine.To crash, says Thomas Hanmer, is to be merry: a crash being a word still used in some counties for a merry bout. It is surely better to read crack. See Crack.

3. To CRASHverb

   Etymology: a word probably formed from the thing.

   1. To make a loud complicated noise, as of many things falling or breaking at once.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crash

   Crash is Cavos second single from their debut album, Bright Nights Dark Days.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crash

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

2. Crashverb

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

3. Crashverb

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

4. Crashnoun

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

5. Crashnoun

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

6. Crashnoun

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

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

   Song lyrics by crash -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by crash on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Bed Down
   • Change
   • Collide
   • Fall
   • Happening
   • Hurl
   • Move
   • Occupy
   • Pass
   • Sound

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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce crash?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

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How to say crash in sign language?

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. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

   Our primary goal right now is to slow the spread of this virus so that the wave of new infections doesnt crash our health care system, and everyone agrees social distancing is the best way to do that, this is not a war that can be won alone, which is why New York is partnering with our neighboring states to implement a uniform standard that not only keeps our people safe but also prevents state shopping where residents of one state travel to another and vice versa.

2. Wernher Von Braun:

   Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

3. Collings Foundation:

   Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were on that flight and we will be forever grateful to the heroic efforts of the first responders at Bradley, the Collings Foundation flight team is fully cooperating with officials to determine the cause of the crash of the B-17 Flying Fortress and will comment further when details become known.

4. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez:

   On behalf of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, I want to extend our condolences to the family of the deceased female, and we're also praying for the full recovery of the two children that have been injured in this crash, as was mentioned, our deputy is said to be in stable condition and we're also praying that he makes a full recovery.

5. Maddie Corey:

   We are jumping with joy to hear Crash is the next Cadbury Bunny but not surprised as he is always the center of attention in any room. He’s been through so much over the past few years and we appreciate the love his friends, family and cat enthusiasts across the country have shown, we can’t wait to see Crash take center stage for this year’s Cadbury Clucking Bunny Commercial and share his story with the world.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=crash
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=crash
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=crash
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=crash
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Crash
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=crash