Clinch vs Crunch - What's the difference?
clinch | crunch |
To clasp; to interlock.
To make certain; to finalize.
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To fasten securely or permanently.
To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
To embrace passionately.
To hold firmly; to clench.
* Dryden
To set closely together; to close tightly.
Any of several fastenings.
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
(obsolete) A pun.
(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
A passionate embrace.
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
(label) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers : to perform mathematical calculations).
To grind or press with violence and noise.
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To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
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A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
A critical moment or event.
* 1985 , John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)
(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
As verbs the difference between clinch and crunch
is that clinch is to clasp; to interlock while crunch is to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.As nouns the difference between clinch and crunch
is that clinch is any of several fastenings while crunch is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.clinch
English
Verb
(es)- I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
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- Clinch the pointed spear.
- to clinch the teeth or the fist
- (Jonathan Swift)
Noun
(es)- to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
- to secure anything by a clinch
- (Alexander Pope)
See also
* (wikipedia "clinch") * clench * clincher * clinch nutcrunch
English
Verb
(es)- Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
- The ship crunched through the ice.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- 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
- PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.
Noun
(es)- 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.