Definitions for churn
tʃɜrnchurn

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. churn, butter churnverb

   a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk

2. churnverb

   stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter

3. churn, boil, moil, roilverb

   be agitated

   "the sea was churning in the storm"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. churnnoun

   A vessel used for churning.

   a butter churn

2. churnnoun

   The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.

3. churnnoun

   The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base.

4. 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.

5. churnverb

   To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

6. churnverb

   To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.

   I was so nervous my stomach was churning.

7. Etymology: From ċyrin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne and Dutch karnen.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. To Churnverb

   Etymology: kernen, Dutch.

   1. To agitate or shake any thing by a violent motion.

   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.

   2. To make butter by agitating the milk.

   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.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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

2. Churnverb

   to stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter

3. Churnverb

   to shake or agitate with violence

4. Churnverb

   to perform the operation of churning

5. Etymology: [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn, v. t.]

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. 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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Cooking
   • Move
   • Stir

Anagrams for churn »

1. runch

How to pronounce churn?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of churn in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of churn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of churn in a Sentence

1. Mark Walker:

   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.

2. Jonathan Chaplin:

   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.

3. Rich Greenfield:

   If I were these companies I would plaster the word 'churn' in everyone's offices, churn will kill.

4. Roger Entner:

   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.

5. Jeff Matheson:

   International business is continuing to churn, there are still a lot of markets in the medium to small business space that need to do cross-border transactions and payments.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=churn
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Churn
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=churn
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/churn
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=churn
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=churn
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html