Definition of churns Churns
/ʧɚˈnz/ - [chernz] -
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What does churns mean?
Wiktionary 
- churns (Noun)
Plural of churn.
Part of speech
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| churn - a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | ||
| butter churn | ||
| vessel a craft designed for water transportation | ||
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| 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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Wiktionary
- 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.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
