churn

Plural: churns

Noun

• a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
• A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
• A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
• Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
• The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
• The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
• Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
• The last grain cut at harvest; kern.

Verb

Verb Forms: churned, churning, churns

• To stir or agitate vigorously, especially to make butter.
• stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
• be agitated
  • "the sea was churning in the storm"
• To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
• To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
• To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
• To stop using a company's product or service.
• To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
• To 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.

Examples

• a butter churn
• His mind began to CHURN with possibilities after drawing three blank tiles in Scrabble.
• I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.
• no-churn ice cream
• Now the cream is churned to make butter.

Synonyms

boil, butter churn, moil, roil

Anagrams of churn