Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /kɹʌntʃ/
  • US:
    • IPA: /kɹʌntʃ/
ÖversättningUttal
Verb
1.knapra
2.knastra
3.krossa
  • Uttal

Definitioner

Verb

  1. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
  2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
  3. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
  4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
  5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
  6. To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.

Substantiv

  1. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  2. A critical moment or event.
  3. (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

Exempel

  • When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
  • Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
  • Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
  • The ship crunched through the ice.
  • The departure was not unduly prolonged.[...]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
  • 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[...]
  • PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.
  • 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.
  • 'Le crunch' showdown returns to top of the bill

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipcrunched
Imperfektcrunched
Presensparticipcrunching
Pluralcrunches
Tredje person singular indicativ presenscrunches