Monday, 6 December 2010

Dictionary References for my 3 words

Crunch:
-to crush with teeth, chew with a crunching noise
-to crunch or grind nosily
-to tighten or squeeze financially
-to chew something with a crushing sound
-a shortage or reduction of something needed or wanted ' the energy crunch'
-credit crunch
-a critical or dangerous situation
-craunch, crush
-to make or cause to make a crisp or brittle sound 'the snow crunched beneath his feet'
-abdominal crunch - sport
-cruncth time
-emergency


Disperse:
-to drive or send off in various directions
-scatter - disperse a crowd
-to spread widely
-to dispel - cause something to vanish - 'the wind dispersed the fog' - blown away
-to cause particles to seperate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid or gas
=break up
-disappear
-dissolve
-intersperse
-spray
-span
-shatter
(An AE called pixel folly)

Compress:
-to press together
-force into less space
-cuase to become a solid mass
-to condense, shorten, abbreviate
-squeeze
-constrict
-contract - draw particles together (muscles)
-pull together
-shrink
-bind
-tighten
-crush
-densen
-narrow
-pack
-ram

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