meaning of crashes
1. To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
2. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
3. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
4. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
5. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
6. Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
7. 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 nights 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]
8. the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullbacks smash into the defensive
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