Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Churn"

  1. drill
  2. drilling
  3. drills
  4. owl
  5. milk
  6. freeze
  7. stick
  8. staff
  9. dashers
  10. milking

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. stomach
  2. old
  3. wooden
  4. small
  5. large
  6. butter
  7. fashioned
  8. big
  9. little
  10. high

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. move
  2. vessel
  3. stir
  4. toss

What Google Knows

A butter churn is a device used to convert cream into butter, a process known as churning. This is done through a mechanical process, frequently via a pole inserted through the lid of the churn, or via a crank used to turn a rotating device inside the churn.

Related Definition

  1. churn:

    v (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

    v (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

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

    v (of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.

    v (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.

    v (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.

    v (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.

    n A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

    n A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).

    n Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.

    n (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.

    n (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.

    n Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

    n (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.


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