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1. (v.t.) crunch
to chew with a sharp crushing noise.
2. crunch
to crush or grind noisily.
3. crunch
to condense:
Crunch the first page into one paragraph.
4. crunch
to squeeze financially.
5. crunch
to manipulate or process (numbers or data) extensively or in large amounts, esp. by computer.
6. (v.i.) crunch
to chew with a crushing sound.
7. crunch
to proceed with a crushing noise:
cars crunching along the gravel road.
8. (n.) crunch
an act or sound of crunching.
9. crunch
a shortage or reduction:
the energy crunch.
10. crunch
financial pressure or hardship, esp. caused by a shortage or restriction:
a budget crunch.
11. crunch
a critical or difficult situation:
When the crunch comes, just do your best.
12. crunch
Usu.,
Etymology: (1795–1805; b. craunch and crush)
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| Definition of 'crunch' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) crunch
the sound of something crunching
"he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"
2. (noun) crunch
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
"an end-of-the year crunch"; "a financial crunch"
3. (verb) crush, crunch, compaction
the act of crushing
4. (verb) crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle
make a crushing noise
"his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
5. (verb) crunch, cranch, craunch, grind
press or grind with a crushing noise
6. (verb) crunch, munch
chew noisily
"The children crunched the celery sticks"
7. (verb) grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
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1. (verb) crunch
to bite noisily
The rabbit crunched his carrot.; to crunch on potato chips
2. crunch
to make a crunching noise
snow crunching under our feet
3. crunch
a situation in which resources are very limited
national parks feeling the budget crunch
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| Definition of 'crunch' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) crunch
to chew with force and noise; to craunch
2. (verb) crunch
to grind or press with violence and noise
3. (verb) crunch
to emit a grinding or craunching noise
4. (verb) crunch
to crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit
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| Definitions of 'crunch' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. crunch
1. vi. To process, usually in a
time-consuming or complicated way. Connotes an essentially trivial
operation that is nonetheless painful to perform. The pain may be due to
the triviality's being embedded in a loop from 1 to 1,000,000,000.
“FORTRAN programs do mostly
number-crunching.” 2. vt. To reduce the size of a
file by a complicated scheme that produces bit configurations completely
unrelated to the original data, such as by a Huffman code. (The file ends
up looking something like a paper document would if somebody crunched the
paper into a wad.) Since such compression usually takes more computations
than simpler methods such as run-length encoding, the term is doubly
appropriate. (This meaning is usually used in the construction file crunch(ing) to distinguish it from
number-crunching.) See
compress. 3. n. The character
#. Used at XEROX and CMU, among other places. See
ASCII. 4. vt. To squeeze program source
into a minimum-size representation that will still compile or execute. The
term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro
that crunched BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a
wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered).
Obfuscated C Contest entries are often crunched; see
the first example under that entry.
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Sense: to crush noisily (something hard), with the teeth, feet etc
She crunched sweets all through the film.
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Afrikaans: kraak, hard kou, kners, k |
Arabic: يَمْضُغ ، يَطحَن بالأسنان |
Bulgarian: хрускам |
Brazilian: mastigar |
Czech: chroupat |
German: knirschend kauen |
Danish: knase |
Greek: ροκανίζω |
Spanish: mascar, ronzar, hacer cru |
Estonian: krõbistama |
Farsi: قرچ قرچ کردن |
Finnish: rouskuttaa |
French: croquer (avec bruit) |
Hebrew: קוֹל כִּרסוּם |
Hindi: चर्वण करना |
Croatian: hrskati |
Hungarian: ropogtat |
Indonesian: mengunyah dengan bersuara |
Icelandic: bryðja, kremja |
Italian: sgranocchiare |
Japanese: パリパリという音をさせる |
Korean: 와삭와삭 씹다 |
Lithuanian: triaukšti, traškinti |
Latvian: kraukšķināt |
Malay: mengunyah |
Dutch: luidruchtig kauwen |
Norwegian: knase, knuse |
Polish: chrupać |
Persian: قرچ قرچ کردن |
Pashto: چیچل ، ژوول، زبیښل |
Portuguese: mastigar |
Romanian: a ronţăi |
Russian: хрустеть |
Slovak: chrúmať |
Slovenian: hrustati |
Serbian: glasnožvakati |
Swedish: knapra på |
Thai: เคี้ยวเสียงดัง |
Turkish: çatır çutur yemek |
Taiwanese: 嘎吱地咬/踩 |
Ukrainian: хрустіти, рипіти під нога |
Urdu: چرمر كرنا |
Vietnamese: nhai lạo xạo |
Chinese: 嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼(踏过) |
Afrikaans: gekraak, gekners |
Arabic: طَحْن بالأسْنان، قَرقَشـه |
Bulgarian: хрускане |
Brazilian: rangido |
Czech: skřípání, chroupání |
German: das Knirschen |
Danish: knasen |
Greek: τρίξιμο |
Spanish: crujido |
Estonian: krudin |
Farsi: قرچ قرچ |
Finnish: narske |
French: crissement |
Hebrew: קוֹל גְרִיסָה |
Hindi: चर्वण करना |
Croatian: škripa |
Hungarian: csikorgás |
Indonesian: suara kerosak |
Icelandic: marr, brak |
Italian: scricchiolio |
Japanese: 車輪のきしむ音 |
Korean: (자갈의) 자자작 소리 |
Lithuanian: traškesys |
Latvian: kraukšķēšana |
Malay: menderap-derap |
Dutch: geknerp |
Norwegian: knasing |
Polish: chrzęst |
Persian: قرچ قرچ |
Pashto: چیچل |
Portuguese: rangido |
Romanian: scrâşnit |
Russian: хруст |
Slovak: škrípanie |
Slovenian: hreščanje |
Serbian: glasnožvakanje |
Swedish: knastrande, knaprande |
Thai: เสียงล้อรถบดก้อนกรวด |
Turkish: çatırtı, 'çatır çutur' se |
Taiwanese: 嘎吱聲 |
Ukrainian: хрустіння; скрип |
Urdu: چرمراهٹ |
Vietnamese: tiếng nhai, gặm |
Chinese: 嘎吱嘎吱的声音 |
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