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crash

1  [krash]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
2. to break or fall to pieces with noise.
3. (of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, esp. violently and noisily.
4. to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash.
5. Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed.
6. to collapse or fail suddenly, as a financial enterprise: The stock market crashed.
7. Informal. to gain admittance to a party, performance, etc., without an invitation, ticket, or permission.
8. Slang.
a. to sleep.
b. to have a temporary place to sleep or live without payment: He let me crash at his house.
c. to fall asleep: I get home in the evening and I just crash till it's time for dinner.
9. Slang. to experience unpleasant sensations, as sudden exhaustion or depression, when a drug, esp. an amphetamine, wears off.
10. Medicine/Medical Slang. to suffer cardiac arrest.
11. Ecology. (of a population) to decline rapidly.
12. Computers. to shut down because of a malfunction of hardware or software.
–verb (used with object)
13. to break into pieces violently and noisily; shatter.
14. to force or drive with violence and noise (usually fol. by in, through, out, etc.).
15. Aeronautics. to cause (an aircraft) to make a landing in an abnormal manner, usually damaging or wrecking the aircraft.
16. Informal.
a. to gain admittance to, even though uninvited: to crash a party.
b. to enter without a ticket, permission, etc.: to crash the gate at a football game.
–noun
17. a sudden loud noise, as of something being violently smashed or struck: the crash of thunder.
18. a breaking or falling to pieces with loud noise: the sudden crash of dishes.
19. a collision or crashing, as of automobiles, trains, etc.
20. the shock of collision and breaking.
21. a sudden and violent falling to ruin.
22. a sudden general collapse of a business enterprise, prosperity, the stock market, etc.: the crash of 1929.
23. Aeronautics. an act or instance of crashing.
24. Ecology. a sudden, rapid decline in the size of a population.
–adjective
25. characterized by an intensive effort, esp. to deal with an emergency, meet a deadline, etc.: a crash plan to house flood victims; a crash diet.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1920–25 def. 16; 1870–75 for def. 22; ME crasche, b. crase to break (see craze ) and masche mash

Related forms:
crasher, noun

Synonyms:
13. smash. 21. failure, ruin.

crash

2  [krash]
–noun
1. a plain-weave fabric of rough, irregular, or lumpy yarns, for toweling, dresses, etc.
2. Bookbinding. starched cotton fabric used to reinforce the spine of a bound book.
Origin:
1805–15; prob. < Russ krashenína painted or dyed coarse linen, equiv. to kráshen(yĭ) painted (ptp. of krásit' to paint) + -ina n. suffix
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crash 1   (krāsh)   
v.   crashed, crash·ing, crash·es

v.   intr.
    1. To break violently or noisily; smash.
    2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
    3. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
    4. To go to sleep.
  2. To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.
  3. To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.
  4. To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
  5. Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.
  6. Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
  7. Slang
    1. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
    2. To go to sleep.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause to crash.
  2. To dash to pieces; smash.
  3. Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.
n.  
  1. A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.
    1. A smashing to pieces.
    2. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.
    3. 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.
    4. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
  3. A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
  4. Computer Science
    1. 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.
    2. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
  5. 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.]
crash'er n.
crash 2   (krāsh)   
n.  
  1. A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.
  2. Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

[From Russian krashenina, colored linen, from krashenie, coloring, from krasit', to color; see ker-3 in Indo-European roots.]
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Crash

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

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

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.

Crash

Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
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Language Translation for : crash
Spanish: estruendo, estrépito,
German: das Krachen,
Japanese: 大音響
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die

v. Syn. {crash}. Unlike {crash}, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software. See also {go flatline}, {casters-up mode}.
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crash 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Crash

A major decline in a financial market.

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Crashes are substantial and lingering. To be considered a crash, the market decline must be evidenced as a 20% drop in an index's total value.

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crash

A protracted major decline in the securities markets.

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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)

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crash

any of several rugged fabrics made from yarns that are irregular, firm, strong, and smooth but sometimes raw and unprocessed. Included are gray, bleached, boiled, plain, twill, and fancy-weave crash. The coarsest type is called Russian crash. Linen is generally used for the warp yarn, while linen, jute, or a mixture of linen and jute is used for the filler. Plain weave is normally employed, but twill is sometimes used.

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