What (who) is crash - definition
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crash
(crashes, crashing, crashed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
His elder son was killed in a car crash a few years ago.
...a plane crash.
= accident
N-COUNT: oft n N
2.
If a moving vehicle crashes or if the driver crashes it, it hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
The plane crashed mysteriously near the island of Ustica.
...when his car crashed into the rear of a van...
Even his death, after crashing his motorcycle on a bridge in New Orleans, was spectacular...
Her body was found near a crashed car.
VERB: V, V into n, V n, V-ed
3.
If something crashes somewhere, it moves and hits something else violently, making a loud noise.
The door swung inwards to crash against a chest of drawers behind it...
I heard them coming, crashing through the undergrowth, before I saw them.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
4.
A crash is a sudden, loud noise.
Two people in the flat recalled hearing a loud crash about 1.30 a.m.
N-COUNT
5.
If a business or financial system crashes, it fails suddenly, often with serious effects. (BUSINESS)
When the market crashed, they assumed the deal would be cancelled.
VERB: V
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Crash is also a noun.
He predicted correctly that there was going to be a stock market crash.
N-COUNT
6.
If a computer or a computer program crashes, it fails suddenly. (COMPUTING)
...after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days.
VERB: V
crash
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.
Crash
·noun Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used ·esp. for towels.
II. Crash ·vt To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
III. Crash ·noun A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
IV. Crash ·noun Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
V. Crash ·vi To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
VI. Crash ·vi To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
Pronunciation examples for crash
1. BP crashes, Transocean crashes--
A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery _ John Del Vecchio + More _ Talks at Google
2. crash.
Future Perfect - The Case For Progress In A Networked Age _ Steven Johnson _ Talks at Google
3. crash.
The History of 111 Eighth Ave _ Greg Estren _ Talks at Google
4. crash.
Deep Thinking _ Garry Kasparov _ Talks at Google
5. Crash."
The Ocean at the End of the Lane _ Neil Gaiman _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of crash
1. "The financial crash is also an ideological crash.
2. Third fatal crash in 12 months Sunday‘s crash is the third fatal crash for Nigeria in the past 12 months.
3. We were going from call to call and crash to crash," said state police spokesman Lt.
4. We were going from call to call and crash to crash,‘‘ said state police spokesman Lt.
5. "There was a crash of illusions, a crash of expectations," said Kost Bondarenko, a political analyst.