crunch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹʌnt͡ʃ/    美 /kɹʌnt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  2. A critical moment or event.
    — It always pains me (slightly) when a flaming young radical like Neil Miller turns out when the crunch comes to be such an ardent defender of the status quo.
  3. A problem that leads to a crisis.
    — The crunch is characterized by extremely depressed liquidity and deteriorated balance sheet positions for households, corporations, and financial institutions[…]
  4. A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
    — But even I draw the line at “doing crunches” in designer clothes. Fashion sneakers are for swanking around the shops, not for running in. And so, like everyone else, I wear grotty old tracksuits earmarked for Oxfam, and tragic free festival T-shirts that give away my age.
  5. The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release. slang
  6. A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
  7. The symbol #. US
  8. A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
    — Smear the peanut butter, fluff, and a bit of the nutella all over, even to the very edge of the wrap. Sprinkle the crunches on top and then start rolling from one of the non-trimmed edges
  9. A shortage. slang
    — But a supply crunch, which is already affecting the drive, could slow it down further.
  10. Moderate distortion.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
    — Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
  3. To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators. slang
    — That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
  4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
    — The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described.
  5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
    — 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[…]
  6. To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised. transitive
  7. To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching. transitive
    — PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.
  8. To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project. slang,transitive

词形变化

crunches present,singular,third-person crunching participle,present crunched participle,past crunched past crunches plural

词汇关系

近义词
hashtag number sign pound sign
衍生词
bone-crunching crunchable cruncher crunchingly crunch numbers number-crunching uncrunch big crunch buttercrunch chili crunch credit crunch crunch factor crunch game crunchless crunch-time crunch time crunchy Dutch crunch pizza crunch reverse crunch screen crunch scrunch stomach crunch time crunch

词源

词源 1
From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.
词源 2
From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.
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