crash

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Adjective 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 Verb 1.2.3.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Derived terms

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹæʃ/
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• Rhymes: -æʃ

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English crasschen (“‘to break into pieces’”), of unknown origin, possibly onomatopoeia.

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crash (plural crashes)

1. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
2. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
3. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
4. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
5. A comedown of a drug.
6. A company 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.

[edit] Derived terms

• crash and burn
• crash course
• crashpad
• stock market crash

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crash (not comparable)

1. quick, fast, intensive

   crash course

   crash diet

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to crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

1. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
2. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
3. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
4. (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.

5. (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

   Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

6. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
7. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

   Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

8. (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.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Russian крашенина (krašenína), “‘coarse linen’”).

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crash (uncountable)

1. (fibre) Plain linen.

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• Alphagram: achrs
• chars

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From English crash

[edit] Noun

crash m. (plural crashs)

1. (of an aircraft) crash landing
2. (economics) crash
3. (computing) crash

[edit] Derived terms

• crasher