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crash - English dictionary definition

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  1. Crash  To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
  2. Crash  To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
  3. Crash  To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
  4. Crash  A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
  5. Crash  Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
  6. Crash  Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
  7. crash   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]
  8. crash  the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback''s smash into the defensive line"
  9. crash and burn   crash and burn A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators compare die horribly. A Sun-3 display screen losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators. The construction "crash-and-burn machine" is reported for a computer used exclusively for alpha or beta testing, or reproducing bugs i.e. not for development. The implication is that it wouldn't be such a disaster if that machine crashed, since only the testers would be inconvenienced. [Jargon File]
  10. crash barrier  a strong protective barrier that is erected around a racetrack or in the middle of a dual-lane highway in order to reduce the likelihood of severe accidents