Crunch vs. Bite — What's the Difference?

Crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound

(of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into something

(especially of a computer) process (large quantities of information)

(of a tool, tyre, boot, etc.) grip or take hold on a surface

A loud muffled grinding sound like that of something hard or brittle being crushed

An act of biting something in order to eat it

A crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made

A piece cut off by biting

A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up.

A sharp or pungent flavour

To chew with a noisy crackling sound.

To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.

To crush, grind, or tread noisily.

To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.

(Slang) To perform operations on; manipulate or process (numerical or mathematical data).

To sting with a stinger.

To chew noisily with a crackling sound

To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument

To move with a crushing sound

To grip, grab, or seize

To produce or emit a crushing sound.

To eat into; corrode.

The act or sound of crunching.

To cause to sting or be painful

A modified sit-up having a smaller range of motion that reduces back strain and strengthens the abdominal muscles

To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.

A decisive confrontation.

To have a stinging effect.

A critical moment or situation, especially one that occurs because of a shortage of time or resources

To have a sharp taste.

A period of financial difficulty characterized by tight money and unavailability of credit.

To take or swallow bait.

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

To be taken in by a ploy or deception

To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.

Vulgar Slang To be highly disagreeable or annoying.

(slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.

The act of biting.

To grind or press with violence and noise.

A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal's teeth or mouthparts

To emit a grinding or crunching noise.

A stinging or smarting sensation.

To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.

An incisive, penetrating quality

To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.

An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting

To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.

An excerpt or fragment taken from something larger, such as a film.

A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.

An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.

A critical moment or event.

(Informal) A light meal or snack.

A problem that leads to a crisis.

The act or an instance of taking bait

(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.

The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.

The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.

A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.

(Dentistry) The angle at which the upper and lower teeth meet; occlusion.

The symbol #.

The corrosive action of acid upon an etcher's metal plate.

A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.

(Slang) An amount of money appropriated or withheld

(slang) A shortage.

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

To grind or press with violence and noise.

(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

The sound of something crunching;

(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

A critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources);

To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

The act of crushing

To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

Make crunching noises;

To sting.

Press or grind with a crunching noise

(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

Chew noisily;

To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;

(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

To plagiarize, to imitate.

(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

The act of biting.

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

(slang) Something unpleasant.

(slang) An act of plagiarism.

A small meal or snack.

(figuratively) aggression

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

(television) sound bite

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

To cheat; to trick; to take in.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

A small amount of solid food; a mouthful;

A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

A light informal meal

(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait;

Wit having a sharp and caustic quality;

A strong odor or taste property;

The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

A portion removed from the whole;

To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws;

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;

Penetrate or cut, as with a knife;

Deliver a sting to;