WORDLE ENGLISH
churn
churn—A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
/tʃɜːn/, /t͡ʃɝn/
Origin
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
verb
- transitiveTo 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.”“no-churn ice cream”“Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.”
- figuratively, transitiveTo produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.“The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.”
- intransitiveTo move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.“I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.”
- To stop using a company's product or service.“Subscriptions can be ended or canceled, which is known as churn. If there are no subscriptions, a customer churns when they stop using the product.”
- informalTo repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- US, informalTo continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- countable, uncountableA vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.“a butter churn”“We notice by our exchanges that great efforts are being made throughout the western States especially, to palm off upon the farming public various kinds of patent churns, or to induce many mechanics t”
- countable, uncountableA milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).“As the ends of the up and down platforms are not opposite each other, it is not possible to provide the ordinary type of barrow crossing, and the full churns were too heavy to be man-handled up and do”“In the old days, milk trains consisted entirely of vans loaded with ten-gallon churns. When filled, these churns weigh 130 lb. each and their manipulation is an art. [...] Like the tank wagons, the ch”
- uncountableCustomer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- countable, uncountableThe time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- countable, uncountableThe mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- countable, uncountableCyclic activity that achieves nothing.“I wished my brain would shut up and knew that soon I'd have to start tidying, but first I needed to rest, so I tried to quell the pointless churn behind my eyes and kept on trying (in a minute) until ”“Getting the right manager has just been made more difficult by not having Champions League to offer. There will also be a huge churn of players after the lavish, unrewarding outlay this season.”
- countable, historical, uncountableThe last grain cut at harvest; kern.
Formschurns(present, singular, third-person) · churning(participle, present) · churned(participle, past) · churned(past) · churns(plural)
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