English Dictionary: Crash | by the DICT Development Group |
7 results for Crash | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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 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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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) |