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. Dennis Nobelius:

   Everybody has revised the protocols a little bit after that kind of crash because we cannot have that again, the industry ... has really been made to do one more loop ... not only (to) make the end product safe enough but also make the testing secure.

2. German Vettel:

   Not racing, if I keep going the same line, we crash.

3. Gary Ross:

   There are times when you need OPEC and when you don't. You only need OPEC when you have major oversupply and OPEC doesn't want prices to crash any further.

4. Stephen Simpson:

   There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs.

5. Rebecca Ivers:

   Appropriate use of child car seats significantly reduces the risk of death and serious injury in the event of a crash, this means having straps tight enough, making sure no straps are twisted, that the seatbelt and buckles are fastened, and that any tether straps are correctly anchored.

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