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crash

[krash]

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verb (used without object)

to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.

to break or fall to pieces with noise.

(of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, especially violently and noisily.

to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash.

Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed.

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to collapse or fail suddenly, as a financial enterprise: The stock market crashed.

Informal. to gain admittance to a party, performance, etc., without an invitation, ticket, or permission.

Slang.

to sleep.

to have a temporary place to sleep or live without payment: He let me crash at his house.

to fall asleep: I get home in the evening and I just crash till it's time for dinner.

Slang. to experience unpleasant sensations, as sudden exhaustion or depression, when a drug, especially 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.

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verb (used with object)

13.

to break into pieces violently and noisily; shatter.

14.

to force or drive with violence and noise (usually followed 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.

to gain admittance to, even though uninvited: to crash a party.

to enter without a ticket, permission, etc.: to crash the gate at a football game.

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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.

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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.

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adjective

25.

characterized by an intensive effort, especially 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; Middle English crasche, blend of crase to break (see craze) and masche mash

Related forms

crash·er, noun

Synonyms
13. smash. 21. failure, ruin.

Example Sentences

The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known, but an official with the event said there were.

Less obvious is their role in accelerating the crash.

There you have it: the ingredients of a nasty crash.

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The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known, but an official with the event said there were.

Less obvious is their role in accelerating the crash.

There you have it: the ingredients of a nasty crash.

The crash gave scientists their first peek inside a comet.

Physicists try to predict when stock prices will crash.

The stock market crash dealt a hard blow to his family's fortune, and his two other brothers took their lives soon after.

Crash-test dummies have to be repaired and prepared for the next crash test.

If you miss even one, the program will crash and you will have to start the whole process over again.

Things did not work out that way, though, and the result was the dotcom crash.

Virtually visit crash sites and get involved in aviation archaeology.

Cars and trucks have a small, rugged box of electronics that can reveal how the vehicle was operating before a crash.

But now, in early afternoon, the tide is rising: whitecapped waves crash against a pink-granite coast.

As new car sales experience a crash of their own and webcasting encroaches on the car with new connection technologies,.

The investigation concluded without finding any reason for the crash.

At a convergent boundary plates crash into each other.

As the heavy balls crash into the wooden pins, hefty motors.

Jefferies' husband is killed by a car crash on their first anniversary and is instantly reborn.

Every year, every school has a few who crash and burn in a big way.

He's been gored by an elephant and survived a plane crash.

People with aviophobia worry obsessively that they will crash or even die of their own fear.

We went into a crash program to build them a drinking trough and to pump water up from underground.

Eisman is best known for predicting the crash of the subprime mortgage market.

Most such comets are doomed to break apart or crash into a planet or the sun.

If the wealth is shared, population trends will accelerate and the world will probably crash.

Leakey lost both legs in a light-plane crash and has received two kidney transplants.

I've had office mates who would crash there for weeks at a time when they couldn't find affordable apartments.

If what they eat is exploited, their populations also crash.

The crash didn t happen because of the advances in agriculture.

Then when it seemed right on top of us, it did, with a shattering crash that made the earth tremble.

As a mercy they take the pregnant woman, whatsername, but crash taking off due to the electormagnetic whatever.

The birds often crash into brilliantly-lit broadcast towers or buildings, or circle them until they drop from exhaustion.

If two vehicles end up in the same cell, they crash.

Scientists are puzzling over why bats crash into wind turbines.

He confirmed that the aircraft crash case has been closed but said it was proper.

What was the time span between the crash of the computer and the installation of the software.

Let's see someone try to crash a plane into a building then.

If biodiversity continues to crash as it has been it will certainly be a health and economic threat to us humans.

One way to forestall such a crash is to breed plants that are resistant to infection.

Astronauts crash land on a distant planet with a civilization of walking, talking apes that are hostile to humans.

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noun

a plain-weave fabric of rough, irregular, or lumpy yarns, for toweling, dresses, etc.

Bookbinding. starched cotton fabric used to reinforce the spine of a bound book.

Origin:
1805–15; probably < Russian krashenína painted or dyed coarse linen, equivalent to kráshen(yĭ) painted (past participle of krásit' to paint) + -ina noun suffix

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World English Dictionary

crash¹ (kræʃ)

—vb
1.	to make or cause to make a loud noise as of solid objects smashing or clattering
2.	to fall or cause to fall with force, breaking in pieces with a loud noise as of solid objects smashing
3.	(intr) to break or smash in pieces with a loud noise
4.	(intr) to collapse or fail suddenly: this business is sure to crash
5.	to cause (an aircraft) to hit land or water violently resulting in severe damage or (of an aircraft) to hit land or water in this way
6.	to cause (a car, etc) to collide with another car or other object or (of two or more cars) to be involved in a collision
7.	to move or cause to move violently or noisily: to crash through a barrier
8.	informal (Brit) short for gate-crash
9.	(intr) (of a computer system or program) to fail suddenly and completely because of a malfunction
10.	slang (intr) another term for crash out
11.	informal crash and burn to fail; be unsuccessful

—n
12.	an act or instance of breaking and falling to pieces
13.	a sudden loud noise: the crash of thunder
14.	a collision, as between vehicles
15.	a sudden descent of an aircraft as a result of which it hits land or water
16.	the sudden collapse of a business, stock exchange, etc, esp one causing further financial failure
17.	(modifier)
	a. requiring or using intensive effort and all possible resources in order to accomplish something quickly: a crash programme
	b. sudden or vigorous: a crash halt; a crash tackle
18.	informal crash-and-burn a complete failure

[C14: probably from crasen to smash, shatter + dasshen to strike violently, dash¹; see craze]

'crasher¹

—n

crash² (kræʃ)

—n
	a coarse cotton or linen cloth used for towelling, curtains, etc

[C19: from Russian krashenina coloured linen]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

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

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"break into a party, etc." is 1922. Slang meaning "sleep" dates from 1943; especially from 1965.

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Slang Dictionary

crash definition

tv. & in.
to attend a party or other event uninvited. (See also crasher.) : The boys who tried to crash also broke a window.
in.
to spend the night. : I crashed at a friend's place in the city.
in.
to sleep. : If I don't crash pretty soon, I'm going to die!
n.
a place to sleep. : I think I know of a crash for tonight.
in.
[for a computer] to stop working. : This thing crashes every time I hit a certain key.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

crash definition

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."
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-01)

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

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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