Crash

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See {Crass}.]
     Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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           He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  404 Moby Thesaurus words for "crash":
     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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 {luser}s 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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)