churn

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  1. noun A vessel or device in which cream or milk is agitated to separate the oily globules from the caseous and serous parts, used to make butter.
  2. transitive verb To agitate or stir (milk or cream) in order to make butter.
  3. transitive verb To make by the agitation of milk or cream: churn butter.
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  • Churn measures often lack context - customer churn, seat churn, and percent of revenue churn are all referred to as churn.
  • The group today said this was already paying off, with customer "churn" - those quitting the group - down from 38. 5\% in the previous quarter to 34. 6\% in the final three months of —  WalesOnline - Home
  • But the story of the people behind the numbers exists in what Barkey calls the churn, that cycling of workers from a business that might be failing to one that's picking up steam. —  billingsgazette.com
  • Slide 12: Rule 2 churn, baby, churn* (* as said by Guy Kawasaki) —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Im surprised they closed it. 10 tenants in 4 years = big bucks on churn, a bit of a cash cow really. —  Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English chirne, from Old English cyrn, cyrin.

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  1. from Middle English cherne, chirne, also kyrn (later Scots kirn), from Anglo-Saxon cyrin (once, glossed sinum) (*cyren, *ceren, not authenticated), a churn, = Dutch kern, karn = Icelandic kirna = Swedish kärna, Old Swedish kerna, = Danish kjærne, a churn: see the verb.
  2. North. English and Scots kern, kirn; from Middle English chernen, chirnen (Anglo-Saxon *cyrnan, *cernan, not authenticated) = Dutch kernen, karnen = German kernen (perhaps from D.) = Icelandic kirna = Swedish kärna, Old Swedish kerna, =Danish kjærne, churn, curdle; apparently from the noun. Some erroneously take the verb to be earlier than the noun, assuming it meant orig. ‘extract the kernel or essence,’ as if from Icelandic kjarni = Swedish kärna = Danish kjærne = Dutch kern = Old High German kerno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German kern, a kernel, the pith, marrow, essence, related, through English corn, with English kernel: see corn and kernel.
 

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