(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
(v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
(n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Example Sentences:
(1) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(5) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
(6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(7) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(8) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(9) Stephen Tolbert died in a plane crash soon after and the case was closed.
(10) Those two ideas came together with a big crash and I began to apply what I had learned about sound to the moving image.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(12) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
(13) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
(15) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(16) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(17) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(18) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(19) In Lughaya, Hassan Barre Gas raises his hand to the sky as he describes the wave that crashed into his home on 5 November.
(20) More attention should therefore be focused on protecting infants from injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
Impinge
Definition:
(v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(2) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
(3) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(5) One patient had previous fractures with bony impingement and one had a chronic tear of the tibialis posterior tendon with pes planus.
(6) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
(7) The vapor was generated by passing air over arsenolite (As2O3, s) at various flow rates and temperatures, passed through a particulate filter and then was collected in a series of chilled Greenburg-Smith impingers.
(8) In this paper I have attempted to highlight some of the psychological forces impinging upon the artist, feeling that the artist's work is highly overdetermined.
(9) Pharmacological studies have suggested that neurotransmitter activity impinging on steroid-concentrating cells can affect the steroid receptor system within those cells, modifying behavioral responses to the hormone.
(10) It would seem impossible to determine an ethical framework for the practice of surrogate motherhood that does not impinge on the liberties of some or offend others.
(11) Three patients with retinal lesions near or impinging on the optic nerve head are presented.
(12) Such subcoracoid impingement is relieved by resection of the inferolateral part of the coracoid tip and of the coracoacromial ligament.
(13) Dynamic fractionation of the output from pressurized aerosols using a four-stage liquid impinger showed that the respirable fraction (as measured by the percentage of emitted droplets with aerodynamic diameters less than 5.5 microns) was highly dependent on SPC concentration and R. A significant correlation between RF and actuator score, based on orifice diameter and length, was also found and confirmed that the highest RF values were achieved with the systems of lowest SPC and water concentrations sprayed through an actuator with the smallest and shortest orifice dimensions.
(14) Post mortem revealed an infiltrating microglioma impinging also on the floor of the lateral ventricle giving a naked eye appearance consistent with a granular inflammatory reaction of the ventricular surface.
(15) A portion of the airstream, which passed this filter, was in turn passed through a smaller glass fiber filter and then into two glass impingers filled with ice-cold methanol.
(16) A random prospective comparison was conducted of 20 patients who underwent arthroscopic subacromial decompression or open acromioplasty as treatment for impingement syndrome.
(17) In seven cases, no "true" intraprosthetic motion weightbearing was observed (including five cases with intraprosthetic motion caused by impingement).
(18) Impinger samples were collected from the sampling manifold and analyzed accordingly.
(19) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
(20) Based on comparison with impinger collection, the mean recovery of HF from silica gel tube samples was 100.7% with a precision of 0.144.