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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
crunch
n 1: the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of
footsteps on the gravel path"
2: 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: the act of crushing [syn: crush, crunch, compaction]
v 1: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle]
2: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: crunch,
cranch, craunch, grind]
3: chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks" [syn:
crunch, munch]
4: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn:
grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Crunch \Crunch\, v. t.
To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to
craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
[1913 Webster] Crunk
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crunched
(kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.] [Prob. of
imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E.
scrunch.]
1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
[1913 Webster]
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter
skull. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]
2. To grind or press with violence and noise.
[1913 Webster]
The ship crunched through the ice. --Kane.
[1913 Webster]
3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
[1913 Webster]
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. --H.
James.
[1913 Webster]
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4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
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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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
crunch
1. 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. To reduce the size of a file without losing
information by a scheme such as Huffman coding. Since such
lossless compression usually takes more computations than
simpler methods such as run-length encoding, the term is
doubly appropriate.
3. The hash character. Used at XEROX and CMU, among
other places.
4. To squeeze program source to the minimum size that will
still compile or execute. The term came from a BBC
Microcomputer program that crunched BBC BASIC source in
order to make it run more quickly (apart from storing
keywords as byte codes, the language was wholly interpreted,
so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest
entries are often crunched; see the first example under that
entry.
[Jargon File]
(2007-11-12)
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Thesaurus Results for crunch:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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