crunch time, crunch meeting, ding, dinge, overtone

crunch time, crunch meeting, ding, dinge, overtone
It's Crunch Time for Nokia

Nokia is widely expected to unveil the first of its Windows smartphones at a London conference this week, but the company will have to roll it out quickly to avoid missing the holiday selling season.

Berlin Philharmonic on discovery tour

Mongolian overtone singing and litanies by Tibetan monks have been filling
the Berlin Philharmonic's Kammermusiksaal - with the ultimate aim of
creating an intercultural chamber orchestra.



crunch
singular noun [oft NOUN noun]

You can refer to an important time or event, for example when an important decision has to be made, as the crunch.

Tomorrow, though, is the crunch.

He can rely on my support when the crunch comes.

The Prime Minister is expected to call a crunch meeting on Monday.

crunch time

A period when pressure to succeed is great, often toward the end of an undertaking. For example, It's crunch time--we only have two more days to finish. This term employs crunch in the sense of "a critical situation or test." [Slang; 1970s]

ding,(dĭng) 

v., dinged, ding·ing, dings. v.intr.

1. To ring; clang.
2. To speak persistently and repetitiously.

v.tr.

1. To cause to clang, as by striking.
2. To instill with constant repetition: dinged advice into my head.

n.
A ringing sound.

[Partly imitative and partly alteration of DIN.]

ding² (dĭng) 
n. Informal
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.

tr.v., dinged, ding·ing, dings.

1. To dent or nick.
2. To hit or strike: was dinged on the head by a ball.
3. Slang. To shoot, especially with a gun.

[From ding, to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen, akin to Old Norse dengja) and from DING¹.]

dinge
noun
(dĭnj) 
n.
Grime or squalor; dinginess.

[Back-formation from DINGY¹.]

noun, US, derog

A black person. Also as adjective, esp. with reference to a jazz style developed by black musicians. Also dingy. (1848 —) .
E. Hemingway That big dinge took him by surprise...the big black bastard (1933);
V. Bellerby The 'dinge' piano trill...instinctively holding the rich overtones of Negro speech (1958).

[Back-formation from dingy adjective.]