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Definition: Cranch |
CranchVerb1. Press or grind with a crunching noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cranch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
"Cranch" is a common misspelling or typo for: Crank, Cranky, Crunch, Crunchy, Ranch. |
Synonyms: CranchSynonyms: craunch (v), crunch (v), grind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Food | Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble. |
Pulverulence | Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | William Cranch, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cranch | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cranch": cranched, cranches, cranching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "anch": Flanch, Ganch, scranch. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ranch. | |
-2 letters: arch, carn, char, narc. | |
-3 letters: arc, can, car, nah, rah, ran. | |
-4 letters: ah, an, ar, ha, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-n-r" | |
+1 letter: chancre, craunch. | |
+2 letters: anarchic, chancery, chancier, chancres, characin, chicaner, coanchor, coronach, cranched, cranches, encroach. | |
+3 letters: chancroid, chancrous, charabanc, characins, chicaners, chicanery, chloracne, churchman, coanchors, coronachs, cranching, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, monarchic, perchance, raincheck, saccharin. | |
+4 letters: anachronic, anarchical, anchoritic, antichurch, archdeacon, chancellor, chanceries, chancroids, charabancs, chiromancy, chloracnes, coanchored, cochairing, cochairman, cochairmen, cornstarch, cranreuchs, craunching, crunchable, diachronic, encroached, encroacher, encroaches, rainchecks, saccharine, saccharins, scraiching, scratching, technocrat, trenchancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 61 6E 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. .- -. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r a n c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0061 006E 0063 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378467806974 |
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