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Crunch vs Crutch - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between crunch and crutch

is that crunch is to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound while crutch is to support on crutches; to prop up.

As nouns the difference between crunch and crutch

is that crunch is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching while crutch is a device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

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

    crutch

    English

    (wikipedia crutch)

    Noun

    (crutches)
  • A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
    • He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll lean upon one crutch , and fight with the other.
  • Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
    • Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
  • * H. Smith
    • Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
  • A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
  • A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
  • (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
  • (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

    • Verb

  • To support on crutches; to prop up.
  • * Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
  • * After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.'' — 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, ''Richie Foster a cut above the rest ,