crunch

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EA needs to have Maxis crunch for the next couple of weeks to make this work offline.

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Quick take

the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crunch gathered in one view.

noun

the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"

noun

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"

noun

the act of crushing

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crunch.

noun

the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"

noun

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"

noun

the act of crushing

verb

make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"

verb

press or grind with a crushing noise

verb

chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"

verb

reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

Example sentences

EA needs to have Maxis crunch for the next couple of weeks to make this work offline.

You tell people they cannot take holiday time because it's "crunch time.

I'd really like to but we're in a crunch right now, and I've got a booked calendar.

Is it pretty evenly spread throughout the week / month, or are there crunch days?18.

He just needs to crunch his data quickly so that he can publish his valuable research.

They should not have to smell or see what I am eating, let alone hear me crunch into chips or an apple.

Once you crunch through the likely results of the program, it's not exactly "take from the banks and give to the poor".

Telling someone not to go to their university classes so that they can crunch on your $generic_web_app should be a jailable offense.

This person reads the same blog articles that computer scientists do, and comes to the conclusion that "I should learn C++ for my number crunching".

There is not a single glucose device on the market that lets you extract the data out of your glucose monitor and crunch the data how you want.

I got 5 awards from the firm in 3 years and a nomination for a lifetime achievement award and all I was doing was hacking up some one-off Perl scripts to crunch some data!