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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See {Crass}.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crash \Crash\ (kr?sh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crashed} (kr?sht); p. pr & vb n. {Crashing}.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See {Craze}.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. --Fairfax. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crash \Crash\, v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. --Macaulay. 2. To break with violence and noise; as the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crash \Crash\, n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. --Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down as of a business house or a commercial enterprise. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crash adj : highly concentrated or intense; "a crash course" [syn: {crash(a)}] n 1: a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells" [syn: {clang}, {clangor}, {clangour}, {clangoring}, {clank}, {clash}, {jangle}] 2: a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" [syn: {wreck}] 3: a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) [syn: {collapse}] 4: the act of colliding with something [syn: {collision}, {smash}] 5: (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative; "the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since" v 1: fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea" 2: move with or as if with a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door" 3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: {ram}] 4: move violently; as through a barrier 5: break violently or noisily; smash; [syn: {break up}, {break apart}] 6: occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend" 7: enter uninvited; informal: "let's crash the party!" [syn: {barge in}, {gate-crash}] 8: cause to crash; "The terorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace" 9: hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock" [syn: {dash}] 10: stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" [syn: {go down}] 11: sleep in a convenient place "You can crash here though it's not very comfortable" [syn: {doss}, {doss down}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). "Three {luser}s lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a `head crash', whereas the term `system crash' usually, though not always implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something crashed the OS!" See {down}. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing {SPACEWAR} crashed the system." 3. vi Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long {hacking run}; see {gronk out}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: crash 1. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system}, especially of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). "Three {lusers} lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a "head crash", whereas the term "system crash" usually, though not always implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something crashed the OS!" See {down}. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing {SPACEWAR} crashed the system." [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01)
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