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 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Derived terms

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• IPA: /kɹæʃ/
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• Rhymes: -æʃ

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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.

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

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crash (comparative more crash, superlative most crash)

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. (intransitive) to make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

   Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

5. (intransitive) (of a computer program) to terminate extraordinarily.
6. (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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From English crash

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crash m. (plural crashs)

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

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• crasher