(v. i.) To grind or press with violence and noise.
(v. i.) To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
(v. t.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(3) Mitchell said enabling more big energy users to be paid for cutting demand at crunch times and building more interconnectors to other countries had worked better elsewhere.
(4) The fashion in Hollywood leading men now is for the sort of sculpted torso that requires months, if not years, of dedicated abdominal crunching.
(5) The market is lightly regulated and any problems could ripple out into a wider credit crunch.
(6) Recruitment has not returned to pre-credit crunch levels, and there is fierce competition for new jobs.
(7) The ratings agency also believes that a much-feared energy crunch which could take the lights out as soon as this winter or next will be temporary, with capacity margins rising to reach almost 20% by 2020.
(8) "I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
(9) Total UK ad spend hit a previous high of £13.1bn in 2007 before dipping to £11.3bn in 2009 following the credit crunch and ensuing recession.
(10) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
(11) In the year of the credit crunch, 2007, the bank's crucial tier one ratio – a measure of its financial health – was 4.7%.
(12) The munching, and some data crunching, produced firm statistical findings ("The flavour cowy was correlated with age and sourness, but was not correlated to any other flavours or tastes").
(13) As other countries look to transition to low-carbon alternatives with one eye on crunch climate talks in Paris later this year, Australia is pushing ahead with an expansion in coal extraction that its conservative prime minister Tony Abbott insists is “good for humanity”.
(14) Elisabeth Afseth, bond market expert at Evolution Securities, reckons that the first pointer of a fresh credit crunch was returning could be seen on August 18 this year when the European Central Bank revealed that one bank had borrowed $500m for a week – as it could not find the money on the open market.
(15) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
(16) The atmospherics between the Athens government and its antagonists, which is now just about every player of importance in the rest of Europe, have been awful for weeks and have got more poisonous as they have neared the crunch.
(17) I used to get 8% on my savings before the credit crunch and was making money every month.
(18) The dramatic reconciliation of the warring factions comes as the credit crunch and worsening newspaper advertising market has left INM facing a funding crisis.
(19) Paragon's chief executive, Nigel Terrington, said the £200m facility from Macquarie would now be used to grant new loans and then as the facility was used up, the mortgages would be packaged up and sold off in the securitisation market that dried up in the credit crunch.
(20) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.
Crunchy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Guy Harvey has this to say of Kathryn Woodfine's chocolate dilemma: "Settling for the Wheat Crunchies demonstrates the following: Kathryn doesn't go for what she wants in life, she isn't resourceful.
(2) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(3) 3 Bake for about 15 minutes – the cake will have a crunchy surface and be gooey inside.
(4) And a chocolate bar (crunchy biscuit base on the bottom, soft rich nougat on the top).
(5) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(6) Nicholas Brady's text updated the science a bit, and Purcell created some gloriously crunchy dissonances resolving to broad, bright harmony as he praised Cecilia, the embodiment of music, and her role in creating cosmic harmony out of atomic chaos: "Soul of the World!
(7) James Anderson and Stuart Broad rediscovered their mojos, Chris Jordan looked every inch a Test player and Liam Plunkett, though not really suggesting he has a role in the long term, at least showed that he offers something different to add to England's bowling mix – a crunchy crouton in the soup of the attack, if you like – while the search for a spinning solution continues.
(8) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
(9) What we need is to translate these into crunchy policies in power, buildings, transport and agriculture," he said.
(10) Toast or grill the slices of sourdough or soda bread so that they are crunchy on the outside but still have a bit of give when squeezed.
(11) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).
(12) Recipe supplied by Heidi Swanson, 101cookbooks.com Shredded Chinese cabbage, cashew nut and duck salad The crunchy texture of Chinese cabbage makes this salad fresh and light, despite using confit duck.
(13) This is "cucina casalinga" at its best – crunchy raddichio and fennel preserved in olive oil and vinegar, spaghetti with a rich wild-boar ragu, tender pork chops and juicy sausages hot from the grill.
(14) The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below.
(15) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(16) They are deliciously light and crunchy, but still connected to cubes of tender pork.
(17) 2 Turn the heat down and cook the the flour for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly so the flour becomes slightly toasted and crunchy.
(18) Recipe supplied by Ben Tish, Saltyard Scallop and corn gyoza Briefly frying the dumplings gives a crunchy bottom.
(19) Sweet and sour courgettes with sesame noodles Sweet and sour courgettes with sesame noodles Photograph: Tamin Jones for the Guardian You can swap the courgettes for other crunchy green veg when not in season, or serve them simply with steamed rice.
(20) In White children in an institution, the mean pH value of faeces became significantly more acid when a supplement of 6 oranges, although not of bran 'crunchies', was consumed daily.