English-Thai Dictionary

crunch

N ภาวะ วิกฤต  crisis emergency pa-wa-wi-krid

 

crunch

N เสียงดัง จาก การ บด เคี้ยว  siang-dang-jak-kan-bod-kial

 

crunch

VT เคี้ยว เสียงดัง  munch gnaw kial-siang-dang

 

crunch down

PHRV บด ให้ เป็นผง  ขยี้ ให้ เป็นผง  crunch up bod-hai-pen-pong

 

crunch up

PHRV บด ให้ เป็นผง  ขยี้ ให้ เป็นผง  crunch down bod-hai-pen-pong

 

crunchie

SL ทหาร  ta-han

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRUNCH

Crunch (krnch ), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crunched (krncht ); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.] Etym: [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch. ]

 

1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

 

2. To grind or press with violence and noise. The ship crunched through the ice. Kane.

 

3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

 

CRUNCH

CRUNCH Crunch, v. t.

 

Defn: To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crunch

crunch |krənCH krəntʃ | ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff ) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound: she paused to crunch a ginger snap. • [ no obj. ] make such a sound, esp. when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface. • strike or crush noisily: two cab drivers who had just crunched fenders. 2 process large amounts of information or perform operations of great complexity, esp. by computer: computers crunch data from real-world observations. ▶noun 1 [ usu. in sing. ] a loud muffled grinding sound made when crushing, moving over, or hitting something: Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch. 2 (the crunch ) informal a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made: when it comes to the crunch, you chicken out. • a severe shortage of money or credit: the Fed would do what it could to ease America's credit crunch. 3 a physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (as a verb ): variant of 17th -cent. cranch (probably imitative ), by association with crush and munch .

 

cruncher

crunch er |ˈkrənCHər ˈkrəntʃər | ▶noun informal 1 a critical or vital point; a crucial or difficult question. 2 a computer, system, or person able to perform operations of great complexity or to process large amounts of information: a global information cruncher. See also number cruncher.

 

crunchy

crunch y |ˈkrənCHē ˈkrəntʃi | ▶adjective ( crunchier, crunchiest ) 1 making a sharp noise when bitten or crushed and (of food ) pleasantly crisp: bake until the topping is crunchy. 2 informal politically and environmentally liberal: a song that incorporates whale-singing seems pretty crunchy. DERIVATIVES crunch i ly |-CHəlē |adverb, crunch i ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

crunch

crunch |krʌn (t )ʃ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff ) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound: she paused to crunch a ginger biscuit. • [ no obj. ] make a crunching sound, especially when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface. 2 (especially of a computer ) process (large quantities of information ): the program crunches data from 14,000 sensors to decipher evolving patterns. ▶noun 1 [ usu. in sing. ] a loud muffled grinding sound like that of something hard or brittle being crushed: Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch. 2 (the crunch ) informal a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made: when it comes to the crunch you chicken out. • a severe shortage of money or credit: the agencies are facing a financial crunch. 3 a physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (as a verb ): variant of 17th -cent. cranch (probably imitative ), by association with crush and munch .

 

cruncher

crunch ¦er ▶noun informal 1 a critical or vital point; a crucial or difficult question. 2 a computer, system, or person able to perform very large or complex operations: a global information cruncher. See also number cruncher.

 

crunchy

crunchy |ˈkrʌntʃi | ▶adjective ( crunchier, crunchiest ) 1 making a sharp noise when bitten or crushed: bake until the topping is crunchy. 2 N. Amer. informal politically liberal and environmentally aware: a song that incorporates whale-singing seems pretty crunchy. DERIVATIVES crunchily adverb, crunchiness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

crunch

crunch verb she hungrily crunched the apple: munch, chomp, bite into. ▶noun informal when the crunch comes, she'll be forced to choose: moment of truth, critical point, crux, crisis, decision time, zero hour, point of no return; showdown.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

crunch

crunch verb 1 Meryl crunched the biscuit with relish: munch, chew noisily, chomp, champ, bite, gnaw, masticate; eat, devour, consume; rare chumble. 2 the bomb had crunched the houses into rubble: crush, pulverize, pound, grind, break, smash. ▶noun informal when the crunch comes, she'll be forced to choose: moment of truth, critical point, crux, crisis, decision time, zero hour, point of no return; showdown.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crunch

crunch /krʌn (t )ʃ /動詞 他動詞 1 〈硬い食べ物など 〉をポリポリ [ガリガリ, バリバリ ]かむ [かみ砕く ].2 〈雪道 砂利道など 〉をザクザク踏む, ザクザク音を立てて進む .3 (コンピュータなどで )〈大量の数字など 〉を処理する, 計算する .自動詞 1 【食べ物などを 】ポリポリ音を立ててかむ «on » .2 【砂利道 雪道などを 】ザクザク音を立てて歩く [進む ] «across » .名詞 〖単数形で 〗1 (砂利や雪などを )ザクザク踏む音 ; (食品などを )ポリポリかむ音 .2 〖通例the /a ～〗危機 (的状態 ); ｟米 ｠経済 [財政 ]危機 ▸ feel the crunch 金に困る ▸ in a crunch 財政難で ▸ when [if ] it comes (down ) to the crunch いざという時には, 危機に際しては .

 

crunchy

crunch y /krʌ́n (t )ʃi /形容詞 ｟時にほめて ｠〈クッキーなどが 〉 (かむと )ポリポリ [サクサク, バリバリ ] (と音が )する ; 〈野菜 果物などが 〉 (新鮮で )パリッとした (crisp ).