crunch

中文： 嘎吱嘎吱地咀嚼、发出碎裂声、高速处理

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.
2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound. · Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
3. To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators. (slang) · That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
6. To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised. (transitive)
7. To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching. (transitive)
8. To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project. (slang, transitive)

He/she/it crunches · 过去式 crunched · 过去分词 crunched · -ing形式 crunching