crash
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See also: Crash
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
Noun[edit]
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.
- 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,
- dysphoria
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Translations[edit]
vehicle accident
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computer malfunction
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loud sound
sudden large decline of business
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Adjective[edit]
crash (not comparable)
- quick, fast, intensive
- crash course
- crash diet
Translations[edit]
quick, fast, intensive
Verb[edit]
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.
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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.
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- (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
- (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[edit]
to collide, fall or come down violently
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to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else
slang: to turn up without having been invited
to make informal temporary living arrangments
computing: to terminate unexpectedly
Etymology 2[edit]
From Russian крашенина (krašenína, “coarse linen”).
Noun[edit]
crash (uncountable)
- (fibre) Plain linen.
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
crash m (plural crashes, diminutive crashje n)
Verb[edit]
crash
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English crash
Noun[edit]
crash m (plural crashs)
- (of an aircraft) crash landing
- (economics) crash
- (computing) crash
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