crunch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /kɹʌntʃ/
crunch (crunches, present participle crunching; past and past participle crunched)
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
- 1816, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth (poem):
- And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- 1849, Henry James, ''Confidence (novel)
- There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about […]
- 1849, Henry James, ''Confidence (novel)
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- 1993, "Michael Barsoom", [comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement (on newsgroup comp.archives)
- PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.
- 1993, "Michael Barsoom", [comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement (on newsgroup comp.archives)
- (software development, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- French: croquer
- Italian: sgranocchiare, scricchiolare, croccare
- Russian: хрусте́ть
- Spanish: ronzar, crujir
- German: knirschen
- Italian: spiaccicarsi
- Russian: хрусте́ть
crunch (plural crunches)
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- A critical moment or event.
- 1985, John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)
- The friends, on the contrary, argue that Job does not "know", that only God knows; yet, when it comes to the crunch, they themselves seem to know as much as God knows: for example, that Job is a guilty sinner.
- 1985, John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (software development, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- Synonyms: crisp, crumble
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- Russian: хруст
- German: Krise
- German: Bauchpresse, Bauchpressen
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