Situp vs Crunch - What's the difference?
situp | crunch |
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 2, author=Jessica Kowal, title=Lacking Big-City Luster, Junior Miss Carves a Niche, work=New York Times
, passage=The girls giggled during the kick line and forced smiles during push-ups, situps and twists.}}
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
(label) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers : to perform mathematical calculations).
To grind or press with violence and noise.
* Kane
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
* 1849 , (Henry James), ''
To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
* 1993 , "Michael Barsoom", [comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement'' (on newsgroup ''comp.archives )
A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
A critical moment or event.
* 1985 , John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)
(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
As nouns the difference between situp and crunch
is that situp is while crunch is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.As a verb crunch is
to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.situp
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crunch
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Verb
(es)- Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
- The ship crunched through the ice.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about
- PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.
Noun
(es)- The friends, on the contrary, argue that Job does not "know", that only God knows; yet, when it comes to the crunch , they themselves seem to know as much as God knows: for example, that Job is a guilty sinner.