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crunch | crash |

As verbs the difference between crunch and crash

is that crunch is to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound while crash is to collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

As nouns the difference between crunch and crash

is that crunch is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching while crash is an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

As an adjective crash is

quick, fast, intensive.

crunch

English

Verb

(es)
  • To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
  • * (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
    • Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
  • 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.
  • * Kane
    • The ship crunched through the ice.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
  • * 1849 , (Henry James), ''
    • 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
  • 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.

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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.
  • (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

    • Derived terms

    * credit crunch * crunch time * reverse crunch

    Coordinate terms

    * (abdominal exercise) sit-up, trunk curl

    crash

    English

    (wikipedia crash)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (for form development compare (m), (m), (m)).

    Noun

    (es)
  • An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
    • She broke two bones in her body in a car crash .
    Nobody survived the plane crash
  • A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
    • My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
  • A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
    • The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
  • A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
    • the stock market ''crash'''
  • A comedown of a drug.
  • A group of rhinoceroses.
  • * Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery'' and Other Group Terms”, in ''The Grasshopper Trap , Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
    • One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash''''' of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody ' crash of rhinoceros!”
    […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
  • * 1998 , E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos , page 19
    • The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash .
  • * 1999 , Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life , page 126
    • Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
  • * 2003 , Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania , page 23
    • The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
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    • Derived terms
    * crash and burn * crash course * crashpad * stock market crash

    Adjective

    (-)
  • quick, fast, intensive
    • crash course
    crash diet

    Verb

    (es)
  • To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
  • To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
    • I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
  • (slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
    • We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
  • (management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
  • *
  • To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
    • Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
  • (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
    • If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
  • (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
    • Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
  • To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (fibre) Plain linen.

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