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Definition of 'churn'English
Verb
( en-verb)
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- Now the cream is churned to make butter.
* Addison
- Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
* '>citation
- The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- I was so nervous my stomach was churning .
Derived terms
* churn out
Noun
( en-noun)
A vessel used for churning.
- a butter churn
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base .
Derived terms
* milk churn
Similar to 'churn'crown, corn, caron, careen, croon, crayon, corrin, cairn, cran, crin, croyn, chron, carn, cerin, chyron, cerian, ceroan, coroun, cohorn, ceroon, caroon, charan, chrain
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