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Qué (quién) es crunch - definición
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
CRUNCH; Crunch (disambiguation); Crunch (album); The Crunch
crunch
n. (colloq.) (esp. AE)
shortage
1) an energy crunch
showdown
2) if it comes to a crunch
crunch
(crunches, crunching, crunched)
1.
If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly...
Richard crunched into the apple.
VERB: V n, V into/on n
2.
If something crunches or if you crunch it, it makes a breaking or crushing noise, for example when you step on it.
A piece of china crunched under my foot...
He crunched the sheets of paper in his hands.
= scrunch
VERB: V, V n
•
Crunch is also a noun.
She heard the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway.
N-COUNT; SOUND
3.
If you crunch across a surface made of very small stones, you move across it causing it to make a crunching noise.
I crunched across the gravel.
...wheels crunching over a stony surface.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
4.
You can refer to an important time or event, for example when an important decision has to be made, as the crunch.
He can rely on my support when the crunch comes...
The Prime Minister is expected to call a crunch meeting on Monday.
N-SING: usu the N, oft N n
•
If you say that something will happen if or when it comes to the crunch, you mean that it will happen if or when the time comes when something has to be done.
If it comes to the crunch, I'll resign over this.
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
To crunch numbers means to do a lot of calculations using a calculator or computer.
I pored over the books with great enthusiasm, often crunching the numbers until 1:00 a.m.
VERB: V n
6.
A situation in which a business or economy has very little money can be referred to as a crunch. (BUSINESS)
...a financial crunch that could threaten the company's future.
= crisis
N-COUNT: usu supp N
crunch
¦ verb
1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud grinding sound.
2. make or move with a loud grinding sound.
3. (especially of a computer) process (large quantities of data).
¦ noun
1. a crunching sound.
2. (the crunch) informal the crucial point of a situation.
3. a sit-up.
Derivatives
cruncher noun
Origin
Wikipedia
Crunch
Crunch may refer to:
- Big Crunch, a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe
- Credit crunch, a sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or a sudden tightening of the requirement conditions
- Crunch (chocolate bar), a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate and crisped rice
- Crunch Fitness, a chain of over 300 franchised fitness clubs located in the United States, Canada and Australia
- Crunch (video games), a period in which video game developers take on significant, often uncompensated overtime
- Crunchiness, the sensation of muffled grinding of a foodstuff
- John Draper (born 1943; also "Crunch"), an American computer programmer and legendary former phone phreak
Ejemplos de uso de crunch
1. "CRUNCH TIME" White House spokesman Tony Snow said it was "crunch time" on immigration.
2. "The credit crunch and the food crunch makes my profit margins less," he said.
3. Dodging the crunch The Bachar Commission did a fine job of protecting us from the global credit crunch. .
4. Overnight, oceans of liquidity became credit crunch.
5. But addressing the energy crunch isn‘t complicated.