chomp

Signification (Anglais)

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).

Concepts

mâcher

morsure

mordre

mâchonner

mordiller

chiquer

mastiquer

Synonymes

champ

bite

chew

masticate

crunch

munch

manducate

cranch

craunch

grind

Traductions

kauen

masticare

mastegar

masticar

beißen

abkauen

abnagen

zerkauen

schmatzen

masticar

μασώ

δάγκωμα

Biss

mos

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tʃɒmp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.