chomp

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The act of chomping (see below)
2. (rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
2. (transitive) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Sinonieme

champ

bite

chew

masticate

crunch

munch

manducate

cranch

craunch

grind

Vertalings

kauen

masticare

masticar

mâcher

morsure

mastegar

beißen

abkauen

abnagen

zerkauen

μασώ

δάγκωμα

schmatzen

masticar

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tʃɒmp/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: champen

In summary

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.