Definition of churn Churn

/ʧɚˈn/ - [chern] - churn

We found 18 definitions of churn from 6 different sources.

What does churn mean?

Noun Plural: churns
churn - a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
		butter churn
		vessel a craft designed for water transportation
Verb churns, churning, churned
churn - stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
		stir mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
		cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
churn - be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
		boil, moil, roil
		move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"
		seethe, roll boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"

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churn (Noun)
A vessel used for churning.
churn (Noun)
The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider .
churn (Noun)
The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base.
churn (Verb)
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
churn (Verb)
To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
churn (Verb)
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.

churn (v. t.)
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
churn (v. t.)
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
churn (v. t.)
To shake or agitate with violence.
churn (v. i.)
To perform the operation of churning.

churn
To be agitated.
churn
The process through which cream is separated into butter and buttermilk through repeated stirring.
churn
A vessel intended for the separation of cream into butter and buttermilk.

churn
churn, n. a machine used for the production of butter from cream or from whole milk.—v.t. to agitate cream so as to obtain butter.—v.i. to perform the act of churning.—ns. Churn′-drill, a drill worked by hand, not struck with the hammer, a jumper; Churn′ing, the act of making butter: the quantity of butter made at once; Churn′-staff, the plunger used in an upright churn: the sun-spurge. [A.S. cyrin; Ice. kirna, a churn; Dut. and Ger. kernen, to churn.]

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