Definitions for CRASH
kræʃcrash

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crashnoun

   a loud resonant repeating noise

   "he could hear the clang of distant bells"

2. crash, wrecknoun

   a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

   "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

3. crash, collapsenoun

   a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

4. crash, smashnoun

   the act of colliding with something

   "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"

5. crashverb

   (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. crashverb

   fall or come down violently

   "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

7. crashverb

   move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

   "The car crashed through the glass door"

8. crash, ramverb

   undergo damage or destruction on impact

   "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"

9. crashverb

   move violently as through a barrier

   "The terrorists crashed the gate"

10. crash, break up, break apartverb

    break violently or noisily; smash;

11. crashverb

    occupy, usually uninvited

    "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"

12. crashverb

    make a sudden loud sound

    "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"

13. barge in, crash, gate-crashverb

    enter uninvited; informal

    "let's crash the party!"

14. crashverb

    cause to crash

    "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"

15. crash, dashverb

    hurl or thrust violently

    "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"

16. crashverb

    undergo a sudden and severe downturn

    "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"

17. crash, go downverb

    stop operating

    "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

18. doss, doss down, crashverb

    sleep in a convenient place

    "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crashnoun

   A loud sudden mixed sound, as of many things broken at the same time.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Senseless Ilium,
   Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
   Stoops to his base; and, with a hideous crash,
   Takes prisoner Pyrrhus’ ear. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   Moralizing sat I by the hazard-table: I look’d upon the uncertainty of riches, the decay of beauty, and the crash of worlds, with as much contempt as ever Plato did. Alexander Pope.

2. To Crashverb

   To break or bruise.

   My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montague, I pray you come and crash a cup of wine. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

   Mr. William Warburton has it, crush a cup of wine.To crash, says Thomas Hanmer, is to be merry: a crash being a word still used in some counties for a merry bout. It is surely better to read crack. See Crack.

3. To CRASHverb

   Etymology: a word probably formed from the thing.

   1. To make a loud complicated noise, as of many things falling or breaking at once.

   There shall be a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

   When convulsions cleave the lab’ring earth,
   Before the dismal yawn appears, the ground
   Trembles and heaves, the nodding houses crash. Smith.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crash

   Crash is Cavos second single from their debut album, Bright Nights Dark Days.

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1. crash

   A crash is an abrupt and often devastating event characterized by a significant failure or breakdown. In various contexts, it can refer to a collision or a fall, a sudden decrease in economic value, or a severe malfunction of a system, program, or device, especially a computer. Furthermore, it can also pertain to a sudden, often uncontrolled, decline in health or mental and emotional stability.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crash

   to break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence

2. Crashverb

   to make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise

3. Crashverb

   to break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof

4. Crashnoun

   a loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once

5. Crashnoun

   ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise

6. Crashnoun

   coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels

7. Etymology: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

   Song lyrics by crash -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by crash on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Bed Down
   • Change
   • Collide
   • Fall
   • Happening
   • Hurl
   • Move
   • Occupy
   • Pass
   • Sound

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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How to pronounce CRASH?

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   British

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   British

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   British

   Karen

   Australian

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   Australian

   Natasha

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How to say CRASH in sign language?

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. Jorge Pinon:

   This summer they are trying to insure the electric grid does not crash, and longer term, that they can handle increased demand from tourism and small business.

2. Michael Bay:

   I let film directors make their movies at Platinum Dunes [Bay's production company] and give them tremendous responsibilities, well, unfortunately a very bad choice was made to use a real crash instead of creating a VFX shot, without realizing the impact it could have on the families.

3. David Ehrenreich:

   The extreme atmospheric conditions met in WASP-76b and its siblings, other 'ultra-hot' gas giants, are not found anywhere in our solar system and would be very difficult to reproduce in a lab, therefore, these exotic objects are unique laboratories to crash-test our climate models and understand the most extreme forms of atmospheric evolution.

4. Robert Clifford:

   This is really disappointing -- a sad reminder for the crash victims families nearly three and a half years later, knowing that the Boeing Max will be flying again even in Ethiopia, where the crash happened.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   I opposed the deregulation of Wall Street and pretty much predicted what would happen in terms of the Wall Street crash, i certainly disagree with her husband on that. She hasn't been clear about where she's coming from.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CRASH
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CRASH
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CRASH
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CRASH
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CRASH
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Crash
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=CRASH