v. t. | 1. | To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. |
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. |
2. | To break with violence and noise; | |
n. | 1. | A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. |
2. | Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise. | |
1. | Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. |
1. | crash - 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. | crash - 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." |