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Crunched vs Brunched - What's the difference?

crunched | brunched |

As verbs the difference between crunched and brunched

is that crunched is (crunch) while brunched is (brunch).

crunched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (crunch)

  • 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

    brunched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (brunch)

  • brunch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of some foods that would normally be eaten at breakfast and some foods that would normally be eaten at lunch.
  • Verb

  • To eat brunch.
  • See also

    * ("brunch" on Wikipedia) ----