To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
To go to sleep.
To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.
To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.
To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.
Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
Slang
To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
To go to sleep.
v.
tr.
To cause to crash.
To dash to pieces; smash.
Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.
n.
A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.
A smashing to pieces.
A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.
A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.
A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
Computer Science
A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.
A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
Slang Mental depression after drug-taking.
adj.
Informal
Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish: a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet.
[Middle English crasschen; probably akin to crasen, to shatter; see craze.]
c.1400, crasschen "break in pieces," appeared 14c. with no identifiable ancestors or relatives, and is probably onomatopoeic. Sense of "financial collapse" is 1817, "collision" is 1910, "falling airplane" is W.W.I. Computing sense is 1973, which makes it one of the earliest computer jargon words. Meaning "break into a party, etc." is 1922. Slang meaning "sleep" dates from 1943; especially from 1965.
a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells" [syn: clang]
2.
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
3.
a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
4.
the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
5.
(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"
verb
1.
fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
2.
move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door"
3.
undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
4.
move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed the gate"
5.
break violently or noisily; smash;
6.
occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
7.
make a sudden loud sound; "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"
8.
enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party!" [syn: barge in]
9.
cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
10.
hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
11.
undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"
12.
stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
13.
sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable" [syn: doss]
crash 1. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system, especially of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened 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. 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." [The Jargon File] (1994-12-01)
Crash\ (kr?sh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed (kr?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. --Fairfax.
Crash\, v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. --Macaulay. 2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
Crash\, n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. --Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
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