Definition of "panic" in Anglais

adjective

1. (Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).

2. Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.

3. Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.

noun

1. (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

2. (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.

3. (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.

4. (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.

verb

1. To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

2. To cause (a computer system) to crash.

3. To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).

4. To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.

5. Of a computer system: to crash.

noun

1. (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.

2. (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.

3. The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.