What does churn mean?
Definitions for churn
tʃɜrnchurn
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Princeton's WordNet
churn, butter churnverb
a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
churnverb
stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
churn, boil, moil, roilverb
be agitated
"the sea was churning in the storm"
Wiktionary
churnnoun
A vessel used for churning.
a butter churn
churnnoun
The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
churnnoun
The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base.
churnverb
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.
churnverb
To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
churnverb
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
I was so nervous my stomach was churning.
Etymology: From ċyrin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne and Dutch karnen.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
A CHURNnoun
The vessel in which the butter is, by long and violent agitation, coagulated and separated from the serous parts of the milk.
Etymology: properly chern, from kern, Dut. cerene, Sax.
Her aukward fist did ne’er employ the churn. John Gay, Past.
To Churnverb
Etymology: kernen, Dutch.
Perchance he spoke not; but
Like a full acorn’d boar, a churning on,
Cried Oh. William Shakespeare.Froth fills his chaps, he sends a grunting sound,
And part he churns, and part befoams the ground. Dryden.Churn’d in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Joseph Addison, Ov. Met.
The mechanism of nature, in converting our aliment, consists in mixing with it animal juices, and, in the action of the solid parts, churning them together. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
The churning of milk bringeth forth butter. Prov. xxx. 33.
You may try the force of imagination, upon staying the coming of butter after the churning. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.
ChatGPT
churn
Churn, in a business context, refers to the rate at which customers stop doing business with an entity, typically calculated over a certain time period. It is often used in sectors such as telecommunications, Internet service providers, pay TV companies, insurance firms, and online video streaming services to express the percentage of customers that discontinued their service per month. Churn is a critical metric because it directly affects company's profitability.
Webster Dictionary
Churnverb
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
Churnverb
to stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter
Churnverb
to shake or agitate with violence
Churnverb
to perform the operation of churning
Etymology: [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn, v. t.]
Wikidata
Churn
Churn is an album of recorded music by Shihad, released in New Zealand by Wildside Records on 12 July 1993 and in Europe on 25 June 1994 on Modern Music.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.]
Editors Contribution
CHURN
In IT Churn is the data change rate. Meaning if a Database server is performing a lot of transactions where data is being added/removed/changed then this Database is churning.
Submitted by rinat on January 21, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CHURN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Churn is ranked #55741 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Churn surname appeared 368 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Churn.
53.8% or 198 total occurrences were Black.
38.5% or 142 total occurrences were White.
2.9% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.9% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.6% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
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Anagrams for churn »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of churn in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of churn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of churn in a Sentence
It's been cleaned up a great deal, to the place where we are continuing to try to churn out huge support from the RSC.
In low-wage jobs, there is significant churn week-to-week, month-to-month, in hours, so many people can not control their hours in today's labor market.
We are spot on where we want to be, we have focused on bringing churn down, and we'll be completely rational about going into the market to acquire new customers at affordable prices in order to ensure we'll meet all our targets.
Verizon has been losing subscribers in the first quarter for the last few years – churn is higher than gross adds, with the drop in switching activity induced by social distancing, Verizon should have benefited.
One of the dangers is that they don't just cut the fat out but also the meat and bones and that has negative consequences, that’s part of what we see in Europe: the savings came first immediately and now the churn (or customer defection) goes up.
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- زبدArabic
- буталкаBulgarian
- lletera, mantegueraCatalan, Valencian
- buddaiWelsh
- kjerneDanish
- rütteln, wühlen, wusseln, durchschütteln, Butterfertiger, Butterfass, Rührtrommel, Kerne, aufwühlenGerman
- mantequera, lechera, batirSpanish
- طغیان کردنPersian
- kirnu, velloa, hämmentää, kirnutaFinnish
- kirnaFaroese
- baratte, baratter, agiterFrench
- tsjerneWestern Frisian
- cuinneogIrish
- נטישהHebrew
- मंथनHindi
- strokka, kirnaIcelandic
- zangola, sbattere, frullare, ribollire, spumeggiareItalian
- ķērneLatvian
- бутинMacedonian
- woelen, overstapkandidaten, agiteren, overstap, botervat, karn, karnenDutch
- agitar, batedeira, baterPortuguese
- сзбить, взбалтывать, взбить, отток абонентов, маслобойка, сбивать, взболтать, взбиватьRussian
- stĺkať, tĺcťSlovak
- kärnaSwedish
- చిలుకుతాయిTelugu
- thùng gỗVietnamese
- serene, bourtea, toûnwereWalloon
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