English Dictionary

crunch

IPA（発音記号）

/kɹʌnt͡ʃ/

動詞

俗語 他動詞

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound. / To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.

日本語の意味

音を立てながら、特に食べ物などを砕く、または砕かれること。

She couldn't resist the urge to crunch the crisp cookie between her teeth.

彼女はサクサクしたクッキーを歯でバリバリと噛み砕く衝動を抑えられなかった。

意味（1）

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.

意味（2）

To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.

Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.

意味（3）

(slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.

That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.

意味（4）

To grind or press with violence and noise.

The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described.

意味（5）

To emit a grinding or crunching noise.

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 […]

意味（6）

(automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.

意味（7）

(computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.

PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.

意味（8）

(software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.

crunches （ present singular third-person ）

crunching （ participle present ）

crunched （ participle past ）

crunched （ past ）