crunch
- IPA[krən(t)SH]
美式
- crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound；make a crunching sound, especially when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface
- a loud muffled grinding sound made when crushing, moving over, or hitting something；a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made
verb: crunch, 3rd person present: crunches, gerund or present participle: crunching, past tense: crunched, past participle: crunched
noun: crunch, plural noun: crunches
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動詞
- 1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound she paused to crunch a ginger snap 同義詞
- ▪ make a crunching sound, especially when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock the snow crunched as we walked
- ▪ strike or crush noisily two cab drivers who had just crunched fenders
- 2. process large amounts of information or perform operations of great complexity, especially by computer computers crunch data from real-world observations
名詞
- 1. a loud muffled grinding sound made when crushing, moving over, or hitting something Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch
- 2. informal a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made when it comes to the crunch you chicken out
- ▪ a severe shortage of money or credit the Fed would do what it could to ease America's credit crunch
- 3. a physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up.
- a moment or period when decisive action must be taken or work completed: the day I visited, it was crunch time—two days before the presentations
Oxford Dictionary
- a moment or period when decisive action must be taken or work completed: the day I visited, it was crunch time—two days before the presentations
Oxford American Dictionary
- a sudden sharp reduction in the availability of money or credit from banks and other lenders: the beleaguered company has become the latest victim of the credit crunch
Oxford American Dictionary
- a contraction of the universe to a state of extremely high density and temperature (a ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- a contraction of the universe to a state of extremely high density and temperature (a ...
Oxford Dictionary
- a sudden sharp reduction in the availability of money or credit from banks and other lenders: the beleaguered company has become the latest victim of the credit crunch
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[krʌn(t)ʃ]
英式
- crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound: she paused to crunch a ginger biscuit
- a loud muffled grinding sound like that of something hard or brittle being crushed: Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch
Oxford Dictionary
