Crash Definition
crash
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English crasschen (“to break into pieces”), of unknown origin, possibly onomatopoeia.
Noun
crash (plural crashes)
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
- Nobody survived the plane crash
- A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
- My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
- A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
- The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- ; the stock market crash
- A comedown of a drug.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- p. 1991, 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.
- dysphoria
Derived terms
Translations
vehicle accident
computer malfunction
- Bulgarian: срив (bg) m., сриване (bg) n.
- Danish: nedbrud (da) n.
- Dutch: crash (nl) m., computercrash (nl) m.
- Finnish: kaatuminen (fi)
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- French: plantage (fr) m.
- German: Absturz (de) m.
- Italian: blocco (it) m.
- Russian: поломка (ru) (polómka) f.
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loud sound
- Bulgarian: трясък (bg) m., грохот (bg) m.
- Danish: krash (da), brag (da) n.
- Dutch: knal (nl) m.
- Finnish: rysähdys (fi)
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sudden large decline of business
comedown of a drug
herd of rhinos
Adjective
crash (not comparable)
- quick, fast, intensive
- crash course
- crash diet
Translations
quick, fast, intensive
- Bulgarian: внезапно (bg), с трясък (bg)
- Danish: forceret (da), lyn- (da)
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- Finnish: pika- (fi), intensiivi- (fi)
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Verb
crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)
- (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
- (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
- We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- 2008, Rick A. Morris; Brette McWhorter Sember, Project management that works, page 109:
- Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.
- (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
- Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
- (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
- If the system crashes' again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.'
- (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
- (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
Translations
to collide, fall or come down violently
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- Finnish: törmätä (fi), romahtaa (fi), sortua (fi)
- French: s'écraser (fr)
- German: krachen (de), anprallen (de)
- Japanese: 衝突する (ja) (shōtotsu-suru), クラッシュする (ja) (kurasshu-suru)
- Russian: разбиться (ru) (razbít'sja), врезаться (ru) (vrézat'sja), грохнуться (ru) (gróxnut'sja)
- Spanish: chocar (es)
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to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else
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- Luxembourgish: bäikéieren (lb)
- Russian: разбить (ru) (razbít'), грохнуть (ru) (gróxnut'), сломать (ru) (slomát')
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slang: to turn up without having been invited
to make informal temporary living arrangments
computing: to terminate unexpectedly
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- French: planter (fr)
- German: abstürzen (de)
- Japanese: クラッシュする (ja) (kurasshu-suru)
- Russian: сломаться (ru) (slomát'sja), грохнуться (ru) (gróxnut'sja)
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Etymology 2
From Russian крашенина (krašenína, “coarse linen”).
Noun
crash (uncountable)
- (fibre) Plain linen.
Translations
plain, rough linen
Anagrams
Dutch
Verb
crash
- first-person singular present indicative of crashen.
- imperative of crashen.
French
Etymology
From English crash
Noun
crash m. (plural crashs)
- (of an aircraft) crash landing
- (economics) crash
- (computing) crash
Derived terms
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