(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.
Munch
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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").
(2) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.
(3) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(4) It's not bad," he said, munching with an open mouth.
(5) It's about Jesus, a Downton Abbey Christmas special and munching mince pies.
(6) Yesterday many of us overindulged in chocolate, but Easter is not the only time we munch our way through mounds of cocoa-based treats.
(7) Sip a pot of its Galway Cream Tea (€6.95) from antique bone china cups while also munching on melt-in-the-mouth feta cheese tart or gluten-free sweet treats such as beetroot and chocolate cake.
(8) It is a smart space, spare, industrial and fronted, amusingly, by a wide strip of vivid green Astroturf where you can take a seat and munch outdoors.
(9) The CAMP (Christie-Atkins-Munch-Petersen) test is commonly used for the presumptive identification of Streptococcus agalactiae (Lancefield group B).
(10) When one David Toska was arrested in April 2005 and charged with leading the Stavanger robbery, Stensrud told Norwegian papers he believed this would lead to the discovery of the Munch paintings - that's how convinced he already was of the link between the two crimes.
(11) The "Genius" feature in the latest version of iTunes is getting a lot of attention: you pick a track in your iTunes library, and after a bit of munching away – and talking to Apple's online servers at the iTunes Store – it will come up with a list of 25 or more tracks that it thinks "go with" the track you selected.
(12) The sense of horror Edvard Munch captured in The Scream is the terror he felt upon seeing Instagram names such thigh_gap_please and Twitter accounts such as @CarasThighGap .
(13) Stensrud floated the theory that perhaps the Munch Museum robbery was actually an attempt to divert police resources from their armed-robbery-and-murder hunt in Stavanger.
(14) Jackie Ashley: No longer seen as muesli-munching weirdos It was a cheeky question asked of Nick Clegg at this morning's manifesto launch, but one that had to be asked: wasn't it the case that Vince Cable was the one Lib Dem politician everyone admired, and how did that make Clegg feel?
(15) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
(16) As the sun sinks gently over the marshes, the birds are singing and a horse is munching happily in a field.
(17) Within 30 seconds, Cameron won round the audience as he explained how he had been joking - in between munches on a slice of the Test Match Special cake - that he would be working that evening, in contrast to the "holiday" time of watching cricket.
(18) R I remember choking on a Monster Munch when I was on my Chopper.
(19) I sit with him and munch on a plain salad, going "Mmm, this is delicious''.
(20) The human rights observers who shuttle to and from Guantánamo, munching on fried pickles at the Irish pub at the naval station, never shuttle to Bagram.