(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.
Lid
Definition:
(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(4) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(5) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(6) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(7) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(8) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(9) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(10) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(11) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(12) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(13) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(14) The occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lid is reviewed with emphasis upon the incidence, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and methods of treatment.
(15) Surgical techniques are based upon removal of fat from each of the two or three so-called compartments within the upper or lower lid.
(16) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(17) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(18) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(19) She will outline her case in a speech at the Oxford media conference, which will be the first time Labour has lifted the lid on the all-party talks on Leveson.
(20) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.