Crash

  • 61crash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. collision, shock, smash, shattering; failure, collapse, downfall; burst, blast. See destruction, impulse, loudness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A crashing sound] Syn. clatter, clash, bang; see noise 1 . 2 …

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  • 62crash — crash1 verb 1》 collide violently with an obstacle or another vehicle.     ↘(of an aircraft) fall from the sky and violently hit the land or sea.     ↘informal (of a company s shares) fall suddenly and disastrously in value.     ↘Computing fail… …

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  • 63crash — 1) A rapid and serious fall in the level of prices in a market. 2) A breakdown of a computer system. A program is said to crash if it terminates abnormally. A computer is said to crash either if it suffers a mechanical failure, or if one of the… …

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  • 64crash — /kræʃ/ noun a financial collapse ● The financial crash caused several bankruptcies. ● He lost all his money in the crash of 1929. ■ verb to collapse financially ● The company crashed with debts of over £1 million …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 65crash — [14] Crash suddenly appeared from nowhere in Middle English (meaning ‘break in pieces noisily’), with apparently no relatives in other Germanic languages. Its form suggests that it originated in imitation of the sound of noisy breaking, but it… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 66crash — When a BBS is harmed in such a way that it is temporarily inoperable. The usual cause is that some files are destroyed, either by accident or by a hacker. Some people try to crash BBS s, a fact that most users (and especially SysOps) think is sad …

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  • 67crash — I v Go to bed; go to sleep. I got to go crash; I m so tired from partying all night. 1960s II v Totally collapse. I came home from shopping all afternoon and just crashed on the sofa. 1950s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 68crash — v. To stay, usually overnight Can I crash at your place? …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 69crash — v. To stay, usually overnight Can I crash at your place? …

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  • 70crash — I. v. a. Shatter, shiver, smash, dash in pieces, splinter. II. v. n. 1. Sound splintering or shattering. 2. Strike crashing, break (in) with a crash. III. n. Shattering sound, splintering uproar, rending, shivering noise …

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