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Definition: Crash |
CrashAdjective1. Highly concentrated or intense; "a crash course". Noun1. A loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells". 2. A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane". 3. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). 4. The act of colliding with something. 5. (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative; "the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since". Verb1. Fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea". 2. Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door". 3. Undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post". 4. Move violently; as through a barrier. 5. Break violently or noisily; smash;. 6. Occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend". 7. Enter uninvited; informal: "let's crash the party!". 8. Cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace". 9. Hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock". 10. : stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week". 11. : sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | 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 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. 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Finance | A sudden sharp decline in stock prices such as occurred in 1929 and, to a lesser extent, in 1962. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A fabric, originally made of linen, which has an irregular appearance arising from the use of thick, uneven yarns, particularly in the weft. Typical linen crash fabrics for towels are plain-woven traditionally flax-tow yarns. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: I believe that it arose from the friendly bantering of the straight leg infantry and the mechanical infantry. Definition: To dismount from an armored vehicle directly into combat. Context: To be used as a warning to prepare for the dismount processes. Social Source: US National Guard. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crash is a 1996 film directed by David Cronenberg, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard, about a subculture of people who are sexually aroused by car crashes, a peculiar fetish arguably stemming from a pun on "auto-eroticism."They re-enact famous car crashes (such as those that killed James Dean and Jayne Mansfield), cause accidents themselves and document other crashes. Both MPAA NC-17 and R versions have been produced. It won a special prize at Cannes for audacity.
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A crash is also a common term for a computer fault that brings down a program or operating system. A car or other vehicular crash is the act of colliding with something, including another vehicle. See Road Safety
- IMDb entry: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0115964
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A crash in computing is an error which happens in the course of program execution or by the operating system itself.All crashes are the result of the execution of a single machine instruction, but their causes are manifold. A typical cause is when the program counter loses track of the correct execution path, due to an earlier bug. In such a case it is quite common for the processor to attempt to execute data or random memory values. Since all data are possible, but only some of these are valid instructions, this very often results in an illegal instruction exception. One might say that the original bug that upset the program counter "caused" the crash, but the actual fault was an illegal instruction, possibly some time later. The art of debugging such crashes is connecting the actual cause of the crash (easily determined) with the code that set off the chain of events. This is often very far from obvious - the original bug may in fact be perfectly valid code from the processor's perspective.
Application crashes
An application typically crashes when it performs an operation which is not allowed by the operating system. The operating system then shuts down the application.
Typical errors that result in application crashes include:
- attempting to read or write memory that is not allocated for reading or writing by that application (general protection fault)
- attempting to execute privileged or invalid instructions
- attempting to perform I/O operations on hardware devices to which it does not have permission to access
- passing invalid arguments to system calls
- attempting to access other system resources to which the application does not have permission to access (bus error)
Operating system crashes
An operating system crash often happens when a hardware exception occurs which cannot be handled, such as a hardware exception occuring within the operating system itself.
Operating system crashes can also occur when internal sanity-checking logic within the operating system detects that the operating system has lost its internal self-consistency.
In an ideal world, well-written operating systems should not be able to be crashed by application-level activity. However, this is not generally the case.
See also:
- blue screen of death
- kernel panic
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crash (computing)."
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A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic loss of value of shares of stock in corporations. Crashes often follow speculative stock market bubbles such as the dot-com boom.
The most famous crash was in 1929, when the Dow dropped 50%, preceded the Great Depression. The succeeding years saw the Dow drop a total of over 85%.
There was also a crash or "adjustment" on Monday October 19, 1987, known in financial circles as Black Monday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 22% of its value in one day, bringing to an end a five-year bull run. The FTSE lost 10.8% on that Monday and a further 12.2% the following day. The pattern was repeated across the world.
The stock market downturn of 2002 was part of a larger bear market that took the NASDAQ 75% from its highs and broader indices down 30%.
Stock market crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. So long as the prospect of further daily drops in the value of stocks persists, a bear market, equity investorss can be expected to sell.
See also: Financial markets, Stock market, Accountancy scandals, Great Depression
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- Every Market Collapse is Different, Opinion in the New York Times, Nicolas F. Brady, August 11, 2002
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The video game crash of 1983 refers to the sudden bankruptcy of a number of companies marketing home computers and video game consoles in late 1983. The term "shakeout" would be a more accurate description of what happened, but because of its sudden and unexpected nature the term "crash" has stuck.The crash has been attributed to a weak economy, poor quality of games (particularly the Atari 2600 versions of Pac-Man and E.T), and to very aggressive marketing of inexpensive home computers such as the Commodore VIC-20, Atari 800XL, Commodore 64, Tandy Color Computer and Texas Instruments TI-99/4A; the crash was probably caused by a combination of the three factors.
Up until the early 1980s, personal computers had primarily been sold in specialty computer stores and at a cost of more than $1,000. The early 1980s saw the introduction of inexpensive computers that could connect to a television set and offered color graphics and sound. Since they generally had more memory available than a console, they permitted more sophisticated games and could also be used for tasks such as word processing and home accounting.
Commodore International went so far as to target video game consoles in its advertising, offer trade-ins towards the purchase of a Commodore 64, and unlike most other computer manufacturers, it also sold the machines in the same department: discount, department and toy stores that sold video game consoles.
Commodore's vertical integration allowed it to engage in some predatory pricing; its margins were much higher than that of Texas Instruments, Coleco and Atari, and, making matters worse, Commodore's MOS Technologies subsidiary actually manufactured many of the chips used in Atari computers and video game machines. The situation was similar to the calculator market in the early 1970s, when companies found themselves buying chips from Texas Instruments but having to compete with TI's calculators.
The result was a massive shakeout of the industry. Mattel, Magnavox, and Coleco all abandoned the video game business. Computer sales were also affected, as the Coleco Adam, TI-99/4A, and the line of Timex-Sinclair computers were withdrawn from the U.S. market, along with a number of other smaller players. Atari nearly went bankrupt and was sold off by its parent company Warner Communications (now part of AOL-Time Warner).
The longest-lasting result of the crash was the shift of dominance in the home console market from the United States to Japan. When the video game market recovered in 1985, the leading player was Nintendo's NES, with a resurgent Atari battling Sega, also of Japan, for the #2 spot. Atari never truly recovered, and eventually exited the hardware business in 1996. It wouldn't be until Microsoft entered the arena with the X-Box nearly 10 years later that the United States would have another competitor in the console market.
Ironically 1983 is considered a peak time in the history of arcade games. For example the first real time 3d video game was created, (called I, Robot). See also: Timeline of video games
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CRASH | English | Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums | N/A |
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Synonyms: CrashSynonyms: crash(a) (adj), clang (n), clangor (n), clangoring (n), clangour (n), clank (n), clash (n), collapse (n), collision (n), smash (n), wreck (n), barge in (v), break apart (v), break up (v), dash (v), doss (v), doss down (v), gate-crash (v), go down (v), ram (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump. |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; | |
Impulse | Percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge; (attack); beating; (punishment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Floods in Pakistan, riots in Paris, and a plane crash in California (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) Sorry baby but I had to crash that Honda (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Irony is a bunch of idiots singing a song on plane made famous by a band that died in a plane crash. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Michael Rosenberg.) Crash crews return to standby positions (Thunderbirds; writing credit: Alan Fennell) | |
Lyrics | If you need to crash then crash and burn (Crash and Burn; performing artist: Savage Garden) But we're gonna crash that's for certain (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) Waves crash baby, don't look back (Circle In The Sand; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) If the bank machines crash (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock) And the sound waves crash down (Where Are You Going; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Clever | Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told (references; author: unknown) Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Crossroads Crash (1973) Crash Theo (1968) Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965) Crash Landing (1958) The Crash (1928) | |
Song Titles | Crash & Burn (performing artist: Savage Garden) Snow Crash (performing artist: Neil Stephenson) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake. Credit: NASA. |  | X-15 Crash at Mud Lake, Nevada. Credit: NASA. |
 | When the ground sea is running Spray flying 50 feet after waves crash into rocks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Remains of Coast Guard PBY (08055) V-189 This aircraft crashed on Mount Moffat, Adak, on July 18, 1943 Two C&GS personnel killed in this crash. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | U.S. Air Force. Hospital, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La. : Interior view- Crash Ward. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Bolling AFB crash cart, with nurses]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Some of the airship's officers on board USS Richmond (CL-9) on the morning after her crash. Macon went down during the night on 12 February 1935. Present are (left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) George W. Campbell, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Gerald L. Huff, Lieutenant Anthony L. Danis, Lieutenant Harold B. Miller, Lieutenant Commander George H. Mills, Lieutenant Commander Calvin M. Bolster, Construction Corps, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Earl K. Van Swearingen, Lieutenant Howard N. Coulter, Chief Boatswain William A. Buckley, and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Leroy C. Simpler. Credit: NAVY. |  | In a British port in 1918, after she had been fitted with a landing-on deck aft. Note the large crash barrier rigged behind her funnel, her "dazzle" camouflage, and the steam launch passing by in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Army National Guard Red Cross helicopter landing near the Pentagon (Arlington, Va.) while smoke billows in the background from area damaged by crash of hijacked American Airlines flight 77 during the September 11th terrorist attack. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Airplane, just after crash, with tail in air, El Paso, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Crash" by Thomas Michael Burgey, Germany Commentary: "Done during a recording session in 1995." | "Crash stand" by C.H. So Commentary: "Reflected crash on a crash stand!!!." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cymbal crash. | | A snare drum followed by a crash cymbal in a typical joke-ending manner. |
| Cymbal crash. | | Cymbal crash. |
| A mid tone crash cymbal being struck. | | Cymbal crash. |
| Cymbal crash. | | Cymbal crash. |
| A crash cymbal being hit. | | Cymbal crash. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had hardly finished when a frightful crash shook the shop |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the people listened and remembered the crash of dry leaves under their feet |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A person who is sleepy and drives is at high risk for an automobile crash. (references) | |
The cycle of euphoria, crash, and cravingÑrepeated several times a dayÑleads to a cycle of addiction and behavioral disruption. (references) | ||
Methadone and LAAM have far more gradual onsets of action than heroin, and as a result, patients stabilized on these medications do not experience any rush. In addition, both medications wear off much more slowly than heroin, so there is no sudden crash, and the brain and body are not exposed to the marked fluctuations seen with heroin use. Maintenance treatment with methadone or LAAM markedly reduces the desire for heroin. (references) | ||
Business | However, these figures are from 1996, the year before the baht crash. (references) | |
The crash of Russian banking system in August 1998 made financing a problem in all sectors including telecommunications. (references) | ||
Financing is an on-going problem in Russia, which was worsened by the August 1998 financial crisis and crash of the local banking system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Central African Republic | Boganda ruled until his death in a March 1959 plane crash. (references) |
Burundi | In April 1994, President Ntayamira and Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana died in a plane crash. (references) | |
Bahrain | Several new projects are expected to move ahead in year 2001, following delays resulting from the 1998 oil price crash. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jordan | The investigation concluded that Shalback died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash that followed the pursuit. (references) |
Political Economy | Pakistan | In August 1988, General Zia, along with US Ambassador Arnold Raphel and many other senior officials, died in an air crash. (references) |
Trade | Mauritius | Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | The boys are often underfed and subjected to crash diets to make them as light as possible. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rosemary Altea | There is something about a car crash, hospital, someone on life support. I wish I knew what I were doing here now. I'm confusing you completely, so it sounds like I really don't know what I'm doing, but that's what I'm hearing very, very clearly. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | When the inevitable crash occurred less than two years after the end of the war, business bankruptcies were widespread. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Paralyzed in a plane crash, he still believed nothing is impossible. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. |
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| "Crash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.57% of the time. "Crash" is used about 2,023 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.57% | 1,751 | 4,809 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.6% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.54% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,023 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crash": air crash ♦ aircraft crash ♦ car crash ♦ crash a party ♦ crash about ♦ crash and burn ♦ crash barrier ♦ crash boat ♦ crash course ♦ crash diet ♦ crash dive ♦ crash down ♦ crash halt ♦ crash helmet ♦ crash into ♦ crash land ♦ crash landing ♦ crash launch ♦ crash locator beacon ♦ crash of aeroplane ♦ crash of thunder ♦ crash out ♦ crash pad ♦ crash programme ♦ crash site ♦ crash test dummy ♦ crash tow bar ♦ crash truck ♦ crash upon ♦ crash warning ♦ crash zoom ♦ cultural crash ♦ go crash ♦ have a crash ♦ head crash ♦ market crash ♦ multiple crash ♦ plane crash ♦ system crash ♦ to crash ♦ train crash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crash": crash-bang, crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash, crash-bash, crash-course, crash-cutting, crash-dive, crash-diving, crash-helmet, crash-helmets, crash-in, crash-land, crash-landed, crash-landing, crash-lands, crash-pad, crash-programme, crash-proof, crash-sites, crash-test, crash-testing, crash-worthiness. | |
Ending with "crash": post-crash. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
crash | 2,157 | crash diet | 129 |
car crash | 1,679 | crash team racing | 123 |
crash test | 884 | crash video | 118 |
plane crash | 843 | auto crash test | 116 |
crash bandicoot | 834 | car crash photo | 113 |
airplane crash | 311 | crash hawaii helicopter | 113 |
crash test dummy | 301 | angeles crash los monica plane santa | 111 |
car crash picture | 266 | air crash | 110 |
stock market crash | 209 | anti crash | 109 |
suv crash test | 188 | article car crash | 109 |
national association for stock car auto racing crash | 183 | crash bandicoot 2 | 99 |
1929 stock market crash | 173 | car crash video | 98 |
motorcycle crash | 155 | crash bash | 97 |
crash test rating | 154 | airline crash | 95 |
helicopter crash | 152 | crash and burn | 95 |
crash bandicoot cheat | 151 | angeles crash los plane | 84 |
bandicoot cheat cortex crash wrath | 149 | crash into lyrics | 80 |
car crash test | 144 | computer crash | 79 |
crash test result | 143 | crash highway hldi iihs safety testing | 79 |
crash bandicoot wrath of cortex | 135 | car crash pic | 76 |
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| Language | Translations for "crash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përplas (bash, clash, flap, fling, grind, knock, slam), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse), falimentim (bankruptcy, dilapidation, failure), gjëmon bubullima, kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crack, crackle, crackling, creak, crepitation, crunch, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rap, rattle, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), kris (crack, rattle), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), pëlhurë e trashë, thyhem (break, break off, comb, deflect, dilapidate, go to pieces, snap), përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, dash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash, wash), përplasje (bang, bump, clap, clash, collision, encounter, flap, fling, impact, slam), rrëzim (canting, collapse, decay, demolition, deposition, destruction, dethronement, eradiation, failure, fall, plough, plow, plump, prostration), rrëzohem me zhurmë, rrokullisem, shembje (bump, cave in, collapse, contusion, demolition), krismë (bang, clash, crack, rattle, scratch, smash, snap). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحطم (disintegrate, disintegration, shatter, shattering, shiver, smash), إصطدم (barge into, bump up against, clash, impact, impinge, jostle, knock against smb., run down, run into), إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), إنهيار مفاجئ, انهيار عام في الحياة الإقتصادية, صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), ضجيج (din, discord, fuss, horseplay, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, noisiness, racket, riptide, thunder), شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), تطفل (cadge, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), انهيار (collapse), تهشم (fall to pieces, fragmentation, shatter, smash, snap), حدث ضجة شديدة, حادث تحطم, قماش خشن, هزيم الرعد, كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), فلس (break, breaking, go bankrupt, mite, peg out, ruin, smash), عطب (slip up, wreckage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | катастрофа (accident, catastrophe, disaster, fatality, prang, shunt, smash, smash up), претърпявам крах (abort), проваляне (breakdown, damnation, defeat, downfall, founder), блъскам се (beat about, crowd, dash, hurtle, jar, plod, press forward, puzzle, snag), минавам с шум, влизам без покана (gate-crash, intrude), падам (attach, come down, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down), грохот (din, rattle, rumble), срутване (collapse, demolition, dilapidation, fall), с трясък (smash), тряс, трясък (bang, chunking, clash, din, hurtle, peal, rattle, slam, smash, thunder), фалит (failure, ruin, smash, smash up), сблъскване (conflict, encounter, foul, impact, jar, jostle, percussion, shock, smash), срутвам се (break in, calve, collapse, fall down, fall in, topple, tumble down), влизам с взлом. (various references) | |
Chinese | 粉碎 (break up), 墜毀 , 崩溃 (Collapse, Collapsed, Collapsing). (various references) | |
Czech | srážka (clash, collision, deduction, impact, impingement, melee). (various references) | |
Danish | crash, udryknings-,rednings-og brandstation (fire station, rescue), sammenbrud (breakdown, break-up, collapse, crushing, failure, settlement, sinking, subsidence, trouble), nedbrud (interruption), maskinnedbrud, grovlærred. (various references) | |
Dutch | crashen, crash, gipskartonwand (fire station, rescue). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kolizii kun (collide with, crash into). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناخوانده واردشدن , سقوطکردن هواپیما, سقوط (Downfall, Elapse, Fall), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), ریزریزشدن , درهم شکستن (Breakdown, Force, Overwhelm, Scrunch, Smash, Vanquish). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhteentörmäys (collision), vika (defect, deficiency, fault, flaw), törmäys (bump, collision), törmätä yhteen (collide), törmätä (bump, collide, collision), ryske, rysähtää, romahdus (breakdown, collapse, failure), paukkua (crack), kaatuminen (topple), jyske (boom, noise, pounding, thud), iskeä yhteen (clash, collide, come to blows), häiriö (atmospherics, disorder, disturbance, inconvenience, interference), auto ym.. (various references) | |
French | caramboler, crash, fracas (crack), bâtiment sécurité-incendie-sauvetage, effondrement (crimp), faillite, faire beaucoup de bruits, écrasement (crunch, crushing), faire fendre (crack), s'effondrer (crack, crumple), grosse toile, incident, krach, panne, resquiller, s'écraser, se percuter, faire faillite. (various references) | |
Frisian | oanfarre (collide with, crash into). (various references) | |
German | zusammenbruch (breakdown, collapse, crackup, crashes), Crash, absturz (fall, washout), zusammenstoß (brush, clash, collision, conflict, crunch, encounter, impingement, skirmish, smash), krach (bang, blow up, breeze, bust up, crunch, din, fight, noise, prang, quarrel, racket, row, ruction, rumpus, set to, shindy, smash, tiff). (various references) | |
Greek | σύγκρουση (buffer, clash, collision, conflict, crush, impact, percussion, pile-up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתרסק (smash), התנגשות (clash, collision, conflict, dash, encounter, skirmish, smash). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csattanás (bang, clap, clash, click, crack, dash, smack, snap, spat, tang). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tubrukan (collision, impact), menggebrak (hit, instigate, thump), membentur (bow), berbenturan (collide). (various references) | |
Italian | caduta (downfall, drop, fall, falling, plunge, slide, slump, spill, toss, tumble), collisione (bump, clash, collision, impact, interference, shock), crash (to crash), crollare (buckle, collapse, crack, crumble, decay, fall down, flop down, keel over, slump, topple), crollo (breakdown, cave in, collapse, dash, downfall, drop, fall, ruin, shock, slump, smash, smasher, tumbling down), cadere rumorosamente, maciullare (mangle), disastro (catastrophe, damage, disaster, failure, smash, washout, wreck), fare a pezzi (break up, chop, hack, savage), fracassare (smash), fracasso (din, fracas, hubbub, noise, outroar, racket, smash, smasher), fragore (bang, bellow, clang, clangor, clangour, thunder, uproar), incidente (accident, casualty, incident, misadventure, mishap, smash), urto (bump, clash, collision, dash, dig, hit, impact, jar, knock, push, shake, shock, shove), malfunzionamento (malfunction), precipitare (come to a head, dash, fall, hasten, plummet, precipitate, rush, rustle, throw down, throw oneself), rompere (breach, break, pick, pluck, smash, snap, tear, tear off, violate), rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), schiantar al suolo, schianto (crack), scontrarsi (clash, collide, run into, shock), scontro (clash, collision, conflict, confrontation, disagreement, encounter, engagement, smash, smash up), scoppio (access, bang, crack, explosion, gale, outbreak, outburst, peal, pop), stazione di salvataggio e di soccorso dei pompieri (fire station, rescue), guasto (addle, addled, bad, breakdown, broken, broken down, damage, damaged, defective, failure, fault, out of order, rotten, trouble, wrong). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 衝撃 (ballistic, impact, shock), 崩落 (break, cave-in, collapse, market decline). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がちゃん (slam), しょうげき (ballistic, farce, impact, shock), ほうらく (break, cave-in, collapse, decline, pleasures of a pious life), クラッシュ . (various references) | |
Korean | 충돌 (Clash, Collision, Conflict). (various references) | |
Manx | tharmanaghey (clash, clashing, crack, crack of thunder, rumble), smoashal (break, shatter, smash), smoash (smash, smash up), jannoo tharmane (boom), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | choque (affection, bump, chunking, clash, concussion, conflict, dash, foul, impact, impingement, knock, shake, shock, smash, smashup, strain), colidir (bump, bump into, cannon, clash, collide, conflict, dash, impinge, run into, strike), colisão (bump, conflict, dash, shock, smash), crash, estrondear (din, thunder), bumbum (ass, breech, butt, roll, trommel), espatifar, acidentar, estampido (boom, cracking, din), trovoada (thunder), falência (bankruptcy, blow-up, bust, collapse, failure, ruin, smash), falha fatal, fim anormal, música ruidosa, paragem anormal, ruína (breakdown, cloud-burst, collapse, confusion, curse, decay, destruction, deterioration, devastation, dilapidation, disrepair, doom, downfall, lurch, overthrow, overturn, perdition, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, smash, undoing, upset, waste, wrack, wreck), trombada (collision), estalar (click, crack, explode, foliate, hurtle, lap, plash, snap, splash). (various references) | |
Romanian | crac (bang, crack, leg, pop), trosnet (bang, clack, crack), trosc (bang, thud, thump, whack), se sfãrâma (shatter, split), se ruina (break, decay, dilapidate, fall, flatten, go under, ruin), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crumble, curl up, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, founder, go to pieces, ruin, subside, wreck), se face praf (go to pieces), ruinare (decay, dilapidation, downfall), prãbuşire (break, break down, break up, burst up, collapse, crack up, debacle, decay, downfall, drop, fall, labefaction), poc (bang, crack, pop), pânzã groasã (huckaback, lap), pânzã de protecţie, distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), da faliment (become insolvent, break, fail, go bankrupt), învelitoare (cover, dust cover, envelope, hood, lap, wrapper). (various references) | |
Russian | рушиться с треском, разрушать авария, разбить, треск (clack, crack, crackling, rattle, snap), крушение (burst up, collapse, derailment, smashups, wreck, wreckage), крах (down, ruin, wreck), грянуть (break out), грохот (bolt, clatter, cribble, crush, din, grate, noise, peal, rattle, screen, thunder), грохнуться, авария (breakdown, casualty, damage, emergency, prang, wreck), банкротство (bankruptcy, business failures, failure, insolvency, smash), потерпеть крах (go phut), потерпеть аварию, падать с треском, дробить (atomize, comminute, granulate, kibble, mill, smash, spalls). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upasti (buck, drop in, fall into, intrude, invade, punctuate), tresak (bang, slam), sudariti se (clash, collide, rencounter, run against, shock), sudar (brush, clash, collision, impact, shock, smash), srušiti (knock down, overthrow, subvert, topple, tumble), smrviti (grind, smash, steamroller), razbiti (break, break down, bust up, crack, overwhelm, shatter, smash), krah (bust). (various references) | |
Spanish | crash (disallowance), choque (accident, clash, collision, conflict, hit, jar, jolt, knock, shock, smash), chocar (bang, clash, collide, hit, impinge, jangle, shock, smash), caida (fall), caída (collapse, crush, decadence, decadency, demise, digression, disgrace, downfall, drop, fall, falling, gradient, hang, plunge, sag, setback, spill, taste, toss, tumble), quiebra (bankruptcy, bust, chink, failure, insolvency, smash), estruendo (blare, bluster, clamor, clamour, clang, clangor, clangour, clash, clatter, confusion, din, noise, ostentation, peal, pomp, racket, roar, smash, thunder, turmoil, uproar), estrellarse (come down, prang, smash), estrépito (clatter, din, noise, noisiness, racket, row), estampido (bang, bark, boom, detonation, report, thunder), estallido (blast, blowup, crack, explosion, outbreak, pop, report, snap), entrar de rondón, encontrarse (be, be found, be located, be situated, clash, collide, come into collision, conflict, convene, cross, dispose, fall in, find oneself, lie, meet, meet each other, occur, stand, touch), derrumbar (overthrow, overturn). (various references) | |
Swedish | krasch (ado, collapse, din, failure, noise, smash), flyghaveri, brak (crack, crasch, peal, smash). (various references) | |
Turkish | iflas etmek (be in carey street, belly up, break, burst up, bust, fail, go bankrupt, go belly up, go bust, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to the wall, go under, smash), çatırtı (clack, crack, crackle, crackling noise, crunch, scrunch, smash), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, decline, dip, fail, founder, go bankrupt, go down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), davetsiz olarak gitmek, gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), gürültü etmek (be too noisy, clamor, clamour, din, make noise, noise, pother, racket, vociferate), gürültüyle düşmek, çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), iflas (bankruptcy, bust, failure, in carey street, insolvency, ruin, smash, smash up), yoğun kurs (crash course, intensive course), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crush, explode, fracture, go to pieces, offend, Rive, shatter, sink, snap), kaza (accident, borough, casualty, crack up, district, fatality, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, smash, smash up, township, wreck), parçalanma (being broken, being torn, breakup, disintegration, disjunction, dismemberment, disruption, fragmentation, rent, schism, smash, smash up, split, split up), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off), sabahlamak (lucubrate, sit up all night, smell the lamp, stay awake till morning, wake, work till morning), seri (battery, chain, cycle, fast, fleet, high speed, quick, rapid, sequence, serial, seriate, series, set, sharp, speedy), yoğun (busy, compact, concentrated, dense, gross, hectic, intense, intensive, peasoupy, rich, rush hour, stiff, thick, turbid), hızlı (expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юatyrdy (crack), юartyldy (crack), gьrpьldemek, зaknyюyk (collision). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розтрощити (overwhelm), розбитися (stave), разоритися (go to pot), тріск (clabber, crack, crackle, crunch, knack, phut, pop, rattle, zip), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, collapse, come down, defeat, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruin, ruination, wreckage), катастрофа (accident, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, debacle, smash, wreck), гуркіт (alarm, brattle, clatter, detonation, din, drumming, growl, noise, peal, racquet, roar, thunder, thunder-clap, wallop), зруйнивати, зазнати аварії (have an accident), банкрутство (bankruptcy, collapse, smash), поломка (breakage, breaking), падати (come down, drop, fall, pitch, subside). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng va chạm loảng xoảng, tiếng đổ sầm (hurtle), sự sụp đổ (labefaction, ruination, tumble). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concrepabunt, fragore, strepitu. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | fracasso. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | croisir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crash": crashed, crasher, crashers, crashes, crashing, crashingly, crashworthiness, crashworthinesses, crashworthy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crash": postcrash, precrash. (additional references) | |
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"Crash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carbh, Carsch, Cashu, cernach, chash, ciash, crach, crah, Crahn, craph, cras, crasch, Crashaw, crassa, crasy, creesh, creh, cresh, crocsh, Cruach, crushy, curagh, Drazh, kraah, Kragh, Krash, Kryazh, Mccash, Mccreesh, Mccresh, Rcas, Scrash. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crash" (pronounced kra"sh) |
| 4 | k r a" sh | precrash. |
| 3 | -r a" sh | brash, rash, thrash, trash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arch, arcs, cars, cash, char, rash, scar. | |
-2 letters: arc, ars, ash, car, has, rah, ras, sac, sha. | |
-3 letters: ah, ar, as, ha, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arches, brachs, chairs, charas, chards, chares, charks, charms, charrs, charts, chaser, eschar, rachis, scarph, search, starch. | |
+2 letters: anarchs, anchors, archers, archils, archons, aurochs, braches, cahiers, carhops, carlish, carwash, cashier, chadars, chadors, chafers, chakras, charges, charism, charkas, charros, chasers, chaster, chawers, chimars, chorals, choreas, chrisma, chromas, chukars, clasher, coprahs, crashed, crasher, crashes, curaghs, drachms, echards, eparchs, eschars, exarchs, hackers, hyraces, larches, marches, mesarch, oraches, parches, rachets, ranches, ranchos, ratches, reaches, rhachis, ricksha, roaches, scarphs, schmear, scholar, scraich, scraigh, scratch, starchy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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