crash
English
/kɹæʃ/
noun
Definitions
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- (informal) A comedown from a drug.
- (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crasshen, crasen (break, shatter, break to pieces, crush, craze).
Origin
Middle English
crasen
Gloss
break, shatter, break to pieces, crush, craze
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Crashgate English
- air English
- aircrash English
- anticrash English
- auto English
- autocrash English
- crashability English
- crashable English
- crashdump English
- crasher English
- crashless English
- crashlike English
- crashmat English
- crashmate English
- crashproof English
- crashworthiness English
- crashworthy English
- crashy English
- craze English
- dump English
- gate English
- gatecrash English
- mat English
- mate English
- midcrash English
- postcrash English
- precrash English
- uncrashable English
- uncrashworthy English
- Crash German
- crash Dutch, Flemish
- crashen Dutch, Flemish
- helikoptercrash Dutch, Flemish
- crash French
- flykrasj Norwegian Bokmål
- krasj Norwegian Bokmål
- flykrasj Norwegian Nynorsk
- krasj Norwegian Nynorsk
- crasen Middle English
- crasshen Middle English
- *krasa Old Norse
- krasa Old Norse
- ecraser Middle French
- 크래시 Korean