Crunch vs Ruminate - What's the difference?
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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.
* Kane
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* 1849 , (Henry James), ''
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 )
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.
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
Crunch is a related term of ruminate.
As verbs the difference between crunch and ruminate
is that crunch is to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound while ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.As a noun crunch
is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.As an adjective ruminate is
(botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw.crunch
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.
Derived terms
* credit crunch * crunch time * reverse crunchCoordinate terms
* (abdominal exercise) sit-up, trunk curlruminate
English
Verb
(ruminat)- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
- Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Synonyms
* See also * OrDerived terms
* ruminatorSee also
* chew the cudAdjective
(-)- a ruminate endosperm