Brunch vs. Crunch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Brunch and Crunch
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Brunch
Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, and regularly has some form of alcoholic drink (most usually champagne or a cocktail) served with it. It is usually served between 11 o'clock in the morning and 2 o’clock pm.
Crunch
Crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound
She paused to crunch a ginger biscuit
Brunch
A late morning meal eaten instead of breakfast and lunch
Breakfast was served so late as almost to constitute brunch
He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge
Crunch
(especially of a computer) process (large quantities of information)
The program crunches data from 14,000 sensors to decipher evolving patterns
Brunch
A meal typically eaten in the late morning or early afternoon as a combination of breakfast and lunch.
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Crunch
A loud muffled grinding sound like that of something hard or brittle being crushed
Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch
Brunch
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
Crunch
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
Brunch
To eat brunch.
Crunch
A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up.
Brunch
A late breakfast or an early lunch.
Crunch
To chew with a noisy crackling sound.
Brunch
Combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
Crunch
To crush, grind, or tread noisily.
Brunch
Eat a late-morning meal;
We brunch in Sundays
Crunch
(Slang) To perform operations on; manipulate or process (numerical or mathematical data).
Crunch
To chew noisily with a crackling sound
Crunching on celery.
Crunch
To move with a crushing sound
Crunching through the snow.
Crunch
To produce or emit a crushing sound.
Crunch
The act or sound of crunching.
Crunch
A modified sit-up having a smaller range of motion that reduces back strain and strengthens the abdominal muscles
Stomach crunches.
Crunch
A decisive confrontation.
Crunch
A critical moment or situation, especially one that occurs because of a shortage of time or resources
A year-end crunch.
An energy crunch.
Crunch
A period of financial difficulty characterized by tight money and unavailability of credit.
Crunch
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
Crunch
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
Crunch
(slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
Crunch
To grind or press with violence and noise.
Crunch
To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
Crunch
To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
Crunch
To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
Crunch
To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
Crunch
A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
Crunch
A critical moment or event.
Crunch
A problem that leads to a crisis.
Crunch
(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
Crunch
The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
Crunch
A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
Crunch
The symbol #.
Crunch
A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
Crunch
(slang) A shortage.
Crunch
To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
Crunch
To grind or press with violence and noise.
The ship crunched through the ice.
Crunch
To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
Crunch
To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
Crunch
The sound of something crunching;
He heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path
Crunch
A critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources);
An end-of-the year crunch
A financial crunch
Crunch
The act of crushing
Crunch
Make crunching noises;
His shoes were crunching on the gravel
Crunch
Press or grind with a crunching noise
Crunch
Chew noisily;
The children crunched the celery sticks
Crunch
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
Grind the spices in a mortar
Mash the garlic
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