crunch
/kɹʌnt͡ʃ/ verbe C1En français : compiler, croquer
- 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.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound. · Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
- 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.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
He/she/it crunches · Prétérit crunched · Participe passé crunched · Forme en -ing crunching
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
We find ourselves perpetually wondering whether the artisanal honey granola would have offered a more satisfying crunch than the organic steel-cut oats.
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