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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /kɹæʃ/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-crash.ogg

: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æʃ|-æʃ

Etymology 1

Noun

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
A comedown of a drug.
A company of rhinoceroses.
* Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
*: One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”
*: […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
* 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19
*: The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
* 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126
*: Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
* 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23
*: The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

Derived terms

Translations

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: brag

Adjective

quick, fast, intensive
: crash course
: crash diet

Translations

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Verb

to collide with something destructively
to make informal temporary living arrangments
: Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
(of a computer program) to terminate extraordinary|extraordinarily
to severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else
to turn up at or join a social event without having been invited

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Etymology 2

From Russian (krashenina), coarse linen

Noun

In the Context of Plain linen.

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Category:English ergative verbs

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French

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.]
Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Crash \Crash\, n.
1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling
and breaking at once.
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The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
--Addison.
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2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business
house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market
crash of 1929.
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The last week of October 1929 remains forever
imprinted in the American memory. It was, of course,
the week of the Great Crash, the stock market
collapse that signaled the collapse of the world
economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From
an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level
of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic
selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following
six trading days.
The stock market's drop was far from over; it
continued its sickening slide for nearly three more
years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932.
But it was that last week of October 1929 that
burned itself into the American consciousness. After
a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there
suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the
American fabric. The party was over. --Wall street
Journal,
October 28,
1977.
[PJC]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Crash \Crash\ (kr[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed
(kr[a^]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.]
[1913 Webster]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
--Fairfax.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part
of the city. --Macaulay.
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2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in
falling crashed through the roof.
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WordNet crash
n 1: a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of
distant bells" [syn: clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring,
clank, clash]
2: a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);
"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
[syn: wreck]
3: a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks
(especially one that causes additional failures) [syn: collapse]
4: the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the
window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
[syn: smash]
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"
v 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"
[syn: ram]
4: move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed
the gate"
5: break violently or noisily; smash; [syn: break up, {break
apart}]
6: occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our
house last weekend"
7: enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party!" [syn: {barge
in}, gate-crash]
8: cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the car into the
gate of the palace"
9: hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the
wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock" [syn: dash]
10: undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed";
"will the stock market crash again?"
11: stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The
system goes down at least once a week" [syn: go down]
12: sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though
it's not very comfortable" [syn: doss, doss down]

Moby Dictionary
Waterloo , a habit , accident , acquired tolerance , acute alcoholism ,
addictedness , addiction , alcoholism ,
amphetamine withdrawal symptoms , appulse , atomize , awake the dead ,
bang , bang into , bankruptcy , barbiturate addiction , barbiturism ,
barge in , be poised , be ruined , bear market , bearish market ,
beating , become insolvent , billow , blast , blast the ear , blow ,
boom , bouncing check , break , break in , break in upon ,
break into pieces , break to pieces , break up , breakdown ,
breaking up , breakup , brunt , bulldozing , bulling , bump , bump into ,
burst , burst in , bust , butt in , calamity , cannon , carambole , carom ,
carom into , cascade , casualty , catabasis , cataclysm , cataract ,
catastrophe , cave , cave-in , chain smoking , charge in ,
chronic alcoholism , chute , clap , clash , cocainism , collapse ,
collide , collision , comb , come between , come down ,
come into collision , comedown , concuss , concussion ,
confront each other , conquering , conquest , contretemps , crack ,
crack up , crack-up , crash in , crash into , crash the gates , craving ,
crawl in , creep in , crescendo , cropper , crowd in , crump , crunch ,
crush , cut in , cut to pieces , dash , dash into , deafen , deathblow ,
debacle , deceleration , declension , declination , decline ,
decline and fall , declining market , decrescendo , defeat , deflation ,
defluxion , demolish , dependence , descend , descending , descension ,
descent , destruction , diffuse , diminuendo , din , dip down ,
dipsomania , disaster , disperse , disrupt , dive , doss down , down ,
downbend , downcome , downcurve , downfall , downflow , downgrade ,
downpour , downrush , downtrend , downturn , downward trend , drive ,
drop , drop down , drop off , dropping , drubbing , drug addiction ,
drug culture , drug dependence , dwindling , ebb , ebb and flow ,
edge in , elbow in , encounter , encroach , entrench , explode ,
explosion , fail , failure , fall , fall dead , fall down , fall flat ,
fall foul of , fall in , fall off , fall short , fall stillborn ,
fall through , falling , fill the air , fission , flap , flop , foist in ,
fold , fold up , force , foul , fragment , go bankrupt , go broke ,
go down , go downhill , go into receivership , go to pot , go to smash ,
go under , go up , gravitate , gravitation , grief , grind , habituation ,
hammering , heave , hiding , hit , hit against , hit the hay ,
hit the sack , horn in , hurt , hurtle , ill hap , impact , impinge ,
impingement , impose , impose on , impose upon , inclination ,
infiltrate , infringe , insinuate , insolvency , insufficient funds ,
interfere , interlope , interpose , intervene , intrude , invade ,
irrupt , jar , jolt , kip down , kited check , knock , knock against ,
lambasting , lapse , lathering , licking , lift , lose altitude ,
make mincemeat of , mastery , mauling , meet , meeting , mince ,
misadventure , mischance , misfortune , mishap , nasty blow , near-miss ,
nicotine addiction , nose dive , obtrude , off market , onslaught ,
overcoming , overdraft , overdrawn account , overthrow , overturn ,
parachute , peak , peal , percuss , percussion , physical dependence ,
pileup , pitch , plummet , plummeting , plunge , popple , pounce ,
pour down , pratfall , precipitate , press in ,
psychological dependence , pulverize , push in , put on , put upon ,
quietus , rain , ramming , rap , rapids , rattle the windows ,
receivership , remission , rend the air , rend the ears , report ,
resound , retreat , retreating market , ring , rise , rise and fall ,
rock the sky , roll , ruin , run , run into , rush in , sack out ,
sack up , sag , sagging market , scatter , scend , send , shatter ,
shipwreck , shiver , shock , shut down , sideswipe , slam , slam into ,
slap , slat , sledgehammering , slink in , slip in , slowdown , slump ,
smack , smack into , smash , smash in , smash into , smash up , smash-up ,
smashing , smashup , sneak in , soft market , splat , splinter ,
split the eardrums , split the ears , squash , squeeze in , squish ,
staggering blow , startle the echoes , steal in , stoop , storm in ,
strike , strike against , stumble , stun , subdual , subduing ,
subjugation , subsidence , surge , swap , swell , swoop , tailspin , tap ,
thrashing , throng in , thrust in , thrusting , thunder , thwack ,
tolerance , topple , toss , total loss , tragedy , trench ,
trend downward , trespass , trimming , trouncing , tumble , turn in ,
undoing , undulate , vanquishment , wane , washout , waterfall , wave ,
whack , wham , whap , whipping , whomp , whop , withdrawal sickness ,
withdrawal symptoms , work in , worm in , wrack , wreck

Jargon 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.

FOLDOC 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."

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-01)