(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.
Noisy
Definition:
(superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.
(superl.) Full of noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
(2) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(3) Patients with steep sloping audiograms understand better and patients with a conductive hearing loss component understand less in noisy circumstances with a hearing aid.
(4) Running speech was used as input signal and STI was calculated from the envelopes of the squared, noise-free speech signal and of the processed, squared, noisy signal in 23 critical bands.
(5) The method of this 3-DCT system could treat rather noisy images scanned with low radiation exposure because of the high contrast ratio (CT number) between bones and soft tissues, in the CT images.
(6) Factor 3 (mixed audio) was defined by accuracy at decoding discrepant cues and "noisy" audio cues.
(7) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(8) On the basis of these studies of noisy neural nets we proposed a model for epileptic phenomena and a theory leading to kindling effect of epilepsy.
(9) Become a resident of N1 (Islington), and you might live in a flat with no heating above a noisy main road, but goddammit, you're going to eat quinoa.
(10) The chief executive, Ross McEwan, warned the rest of the year would be “noisy” as the long list of mistakes from the past continued to catch up with the bank.
(11) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
(12) "People can enjoy music – they can converse in surroundings like here, in a foreign language, in a noisy place.
(13) Three types of test objects were superimposed on noisy backgrounds and observed by 58 subjects: large low-contrast disks to simulate tumors, small disks to simulate calcifications, and bars to simulate blood vessels.
(14) 1.20pm: Our Guardian beat blogger in Leeds, John Baron, reports on the protests in the city: More than 2,000 noisy students have marched through University of Leeds and the half a mile into Leeds city city.
(15) In contrast, models with non-perfect (noisy) performance were frequently able to double or triple their reduced efficiency by adapting to the stimulus intensity.
(16) Hodgson’s selection must have been a source of encouragement for the sokoli and it was a cause for frustration among the stands packed with England’s noisy followers.
(17) In the course of the evaluation experiment several kinds of speech stimuli including clean speech, bandpass-filtered speech, and noisy speech were presented to three different pitch extractors.
(18) Last week the prime minister said he found windfarms noisy and “visually awful” and disclosed that the government’s aim in the RET deal was to reduce the number of wind turbines as much as possible, given the makeup of the Senate.
(19) You are lying down with your head in a noisy and tightfitting fMRI brain scanner, which is unnerving in itself.
(20) A group of 15 patients with complaints of having difficulties in understanding speech, especially in noisy surroundings in spite of (nearly) normal pure-tone audiograms, was subjected to a battery of speech-audiometric tests.