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# crunch

«crunch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to bite or press something hard so it makes a loud…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (crunch, crunches, crunched, crunching); noun (a crunch, crunches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To crunch means to bite or press something hard so it makes a loud cracking sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#m1)

2) A crunch is that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#m2)

3) Crunches are an exercise like sit-ups for the stomach muscles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#m3)

4) To crunch numbers is to do a lot of sums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: counted exercises (sit-ups) with a daily rate, or the sound of eating; mostly a story word; «crunch numbers» means do calculations; PE: crunches and sit-ups; everyday life: crunchy apples, the crunch of snow or leaves

### examples

- He did 20 crunches each morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x1)
- She crunched 8 carrots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x2)
- How many crunches does he do in 7 days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x3)
- The leaves crunch under our feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x4)
- The snow crunched under my boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x5)
- I like the crunch of a fresh apple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x6)
- The computer can crunch big numbers fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x7)
- The cattle move and crunch, and lie down, and move on again, and they do not even low. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/#x8)

### note

As exercises it is the thing counted, often with a daily rate; otherwise no clue. Trap: none special. A week has 7 days.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crunch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crunch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.