Definizione monolingua

crash

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

1. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
2. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

   Im sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. Ill pay for repairs.

3. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.

   We werent invited to the party so we decided to crash it.

4. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
   • 2008, Rick A. Morris; Brette McWhorter Sember, Project management that works, page 109:

     Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.

5. (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

   Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

6. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.

   If the system crashes again, well have it fixed in the computer shop.

7. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

   Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

8. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

crash (plural crashes)

1. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

   She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.

   Nobody survived the plane crash

2. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

   My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

3. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.

   The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.

4. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
5.  ; the stock market crash
6. A comedown of a drug.
7. A group of rhinoceroses.
   • p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,

     One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”

     […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.

   • 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19

     The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.

   • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126

     Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.

   • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23

     The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

   dysphoria

crash (not comparable)

1. quick, fast, intensive

   crash course

   crash diet

Definizione dizionario crash

	scontro
	vehicle accident

	arrestarsi in modo anomalo
	The failure of either a program or a disk drive. A program crash results in the loss of all unsaved data and can leave the operating system unstable enough to require restarting the computer. A disk drive crash, sometimes called a disk crash, leaves the drive inoperable and can cause loss of data.

	arresto anomalo del sistema
	The failure of either a program or a disk drive. A program crash results in the loss of all unsaved data and can leave the operating system unstable enough to require restarting the computer. A disk drive crash, sometimes called a disk crash, leaves the drive inoperable and can cause loss of data.

	blocco
	computer malfunction

	collisione
	Quando due oggetti si scontrano con forza uno sopra l'altro.
	The occurrence when two object forcefully impact on each other.

	crash
	Una disfunzione del computer che rende il sistema parzialmente o totalmente inoperante.
	A computer malfunction that makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

	crollo
	sudden large decline of business

	fracasso
	loud sound

	guasto
	Una disfunzione del computer che rende il sistema parzialmente o totalmente inoperante.
	A computer malfunction that makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

	incidente
	vehicle accident

avere un incidente

battere

bloccarsi

bussare

caduta

collidere

colpire

colpo

crac

crollare

disastro

fallimento

fracassare

fragore

picchiare

precipitare

rompere

rovescio di fortuna

rovinare

schiacciare

schianto

scontrarsi

scoppio

urto

Altri significati:

(transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.

Sudden dramatic decline of stock prices at stock markets.

A company of rhinoceroses.

to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else

to collide, fall or come down violently

A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.

(intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.

(transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

slang: to turn up without having been invited

computing: to terminate unexpectedly

quick, fast, intensive

to make informal temporary living arrangments

A comedown of a drug.

(transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

(fibre) Plain linen.

(market) decline

(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

(computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

(computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.