the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally; "the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor"; "the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope"
a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
a trap in the form of a concealed hole
a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
(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"
stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"
hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
break violently or noisily; smash;
cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace"
fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed the gate"
move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door"
occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"
affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"
not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"
relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"
capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children"
deliberately arranged for effect; "one of those artfully staged photographs"
planned in advance; "an arranged marriage"
disposed or placed in a particular kind of order; "the carefully arranged chessmen"; "haphazardly arranged interlobular septa"; "comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace"
seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"
`continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)