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crunch
English
Etymology
From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /k??nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- 1816, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth:
- And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,
- 1816, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth:
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- 1849, Henry James, Confidence
- 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
- (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 engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
Derived terms
- cruncher
Translations
Noun
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 engineering, 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.
- (India, slang) A shortage.
Coordinate terms
- (abdominal exercise): sit-up, trunk curl
Derived terms
- credit crunch
- crunch time
- crunchy
- reverse crunch
- scrunch
Translations
Spanish
Noun
crunch m (plural crunches)
- crunch (exercise)
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uncrunch
English
Etymology
un- +? crunch
Verb
uncrunch (third-person singular simple present uncrunches, present participle uncrunching, simple past and past participle uncrunched)
- (computing, transitive) To decompress.
- 1986, Compute: Volume 8
- Load (but do not run) the BASIC program you want to uncrunch.
- 1989, "Ranjit Bhatnagar", Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP) (on newsgroup comp.sys.amiga)
- Thus when you invoke the crunched version of emacs, for instance, it actually loads the uncruncher, which then loads and uncrunches the rest of emacs.
- 2002, "Mark Blunden", Temple District (on newsgroup alt.games.baldurs-gate)
- Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.
- 1986, Compute: Volume 8
Usage notes
- Associated with the Commodore Amiga computer.
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