Definition of churn in English:

churn

noun tʃəːntʃərn

1A machine for making butter by shaking milk or cream.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Country Living-themed event at St Mary's Church, Sand Hutton, will include a pig farm, country kitchen window, milk churns and butter churns.
- We are one of only two remaining manufacturers in North America still using a butter churn in the making of buttermilk.
- Jackie thought that was a mug's game, but was happy to separate the cream from the milk (by hand), and make butter in a wooden churn.
- Mr Stone said the 38 cm metal disc was originally attached to the largest type of butter churn made by the company, which was built specifically for the large-scale production of butter.
- Since about 1870, they had been in the business of manufacturing churns, butter molds, scales, thermometers, and other tools used in dairying.
- Occasionally, when there's an abundance of milk, Janet will make butter and cheese by traditional methods using an old, hand-turned butter churn, and her daughter produces free-range bacon.
- Some of them saw us and paused at their chores, resting behind their ploughs or looking up from butter churns and gardens.
- She is a perfect mountain woman, shrewd and suspicious, quick to laugh or scowl, handy with a butter churn or a folk remedy.
- Even better, through development work on the continuous butter churn, Tong and his team of food scientists propose the production of a butter that has a reduced fat content.
- Mothers made butter from milk, they mixed the milk in a butter churn.
- They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows.
- The farmer agreed to do this and started churning again the next morning, in no time at all there was enough butter in the churn to supply half the countryside.
- An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway.
- When I was small I had the job of watching the little circular window on the lid of the churn and had to shout when the glass became clear, an indication that the butter had separated.
- It was also usual, although not very popular, for the one who was last downstairs to have to turn the churn handle until the cream turned into butter.
- Her dress was very stately; it was mostly off-white silk, like the color of buttery cream in a churn.
- It was said that to take a coal from the fire in the house in which a churn was being made was very unlucky for the maker of the butter.
- He has created a motorised butter churn which is an ordinary churn with an engine from a lawn mower attached underneath.
- In the center of the room stands an enormous stainless steel churn, a giant horizontal spatula on wheels to remove the butter from the churn, and a boat, or trough, into which the spatula unloads its haul.
- There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn.
Synonyms
blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, beater, churn, whisk
2British A large metal container for milk.
the fresh creamy milk sat in a churn in the kitchen
a milk churn
Example sentencesExamples
- The milk was offered from a metal churn and the ladles hung from it.
- I started when I was nine years old going round with my father with a horse and float with milk churns.
- Since returning to his plot in October his hut has been burnt down and he has lost tools, milk churns and chicken feed totalling well over £100.
- Hoops of plant stems woven and placed under milk storage jugs, pails and churns would prevent milk being spirited away by fairies.
- The farmers would bring their milk in churns, and the system was that the Department of Agriculture bought it from the farmers, and then they sold it to us.
- When he had finished, he poured the milk into the big churns and washed the buckets.
- I can still hear the clang of the milk churns as they were dropped at the back door and smell the scent of sweet, evocative vanilla and hot milk that wafted up to my room.
- In those days his dad and uncle Derek ran their business from Moorhouse Farm, delivering the milk from churns carried on horse-drawn floats with wooden wheels.
- In the early days farmers would bring their churn of milk to the creamery by whatever means was available to them, horse and cart, donkey and cart or tractor and trailer.
- Milk churns and dairymaids are making a comeback on a Sheffield housing estate where South Yorkshire's first urban dairy will start producing cheese commercially next month.
- Hathaway milk churns were made from wood, and were fitted with a trademark red iron plate.
- They were fortunate to have the milk lorry pass by the farm gate, so one of the lads would help the driver to lift the churns up onto the lorry each morning, earlier on a Sunday so that the driver could finish a bit earlier.
- The folk culture of the North British backcountry, translated to the Appalachian highlands of America, held that it was unlucky to wash a milk churn.
- In addition to the pre-war team groups, the paper often featured old pictures of the town - horse drawn carts, rattling with milk churns, wending their way down foggy, gas-lit streets and the like.
- Cosgrove's father had been a lorry driver for the local creamery, driving milk churns round the houses and farms in Perthshire.
3
short for churn rate

verb tʃəːntʃərn

[with object]

1Shake (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter.
the cream is ripened before it is churned
Example sentencesExamples
- The butter plant primarily churns cream and packages butter.
- Our flour comes in the shape of a loaf, our milk churned into butter/cheese.
- The organic butter you buy in the grocery store is usually made from mechanically churned cream.
- The sample of the sound of milk being churned into butter takes on an eerie sound that is more like a pack of marching troopers than a regular act of rural domesticity.
- This milk was separated into cream, being churned into butter and the skin being returned to suppliers for animal feeding.
- When this milk was churned, the concentration of pesticides increased; that might be the butter you spread on toast.
- Besides milking a cow and separating off the cream, that cream has to be churned for quite a while at the right temperature, washed and salted and moulded until it's just right.
- Suzanne makes sure that the equipment is all sprayed down, and Alastair churns the cream until it turns into butter.
- If the gold ore is not refined one will not obtain the pure gold, if the milk is not churned one will not obtain butter, and if the sesame seed is not pounded one will not produce sesame oil.
Synonyms
stir, agitate
beat, whip, whisk
1. 1.1 Produce (butter) by churning milk or cream.
  the women were churning butter and making cheese
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes she churned fresh butter and traded it.
  Little Samuel was sitting on the front porch churning butter.
  She was raised on a rustic Tyrolian farm where she learned to churn butter, bake bread, and store provisions for winter.
  It turns out they actually live like that: their jobs are building barns and churning butter and having little card tables at farmer's markets.
  Butter and cheese were being churned and sold on the streets, while a pig on a barbecue created a mouth-watering aroma that drifted through the town.
  She slowly gained the stamina needed for the intensely hard work of milking and churning butter.
  Women churned butter, baked potato bread and poured Irish coffees.
  I shall just have to sit and churn butter and weave my own clothing like they did in the old days.
  An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting.
  His mother always made homemade bread and churned butter, and she preserved jams and a myriad of fruits and vegetables for savoring through the year.
  The rest of the afternoon was spent picking tomatoes, churning butter, washing dishes, serving, cleaning the stables and just having fun.
  The buttermaker then drains the buttermilk off and continues churning the butter until it reaches the right texture and firmness.
  ‘There's something I'm good at,’ I muttered, thinking of the fine, silky butter I would churn.
  While children on the frontier learned how to milk cows and churn butter, parents learned how wise 12-year-olds can be.
  McDermott was the lady who churned the butter at Rathscanlon.
  It has its own salmon-smoking oven and churns its own butter.
  Yet Ann kept up the old tradition of churning butter.
  Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth.
  A full slate of activities also is planned, including butter churning, ice cream making and ice cream eating contests.
  They were also expected to wash milk-pots and churn butter.
2(with reference to liquid) move or cause to move about vigorously.
no object the seas churned
figurative her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal
with object in high winds most of the loch is churned up
Example sentencesExamples
- While the mixture churns, whiz the strawberries to a purée in a food processor.
- It all sounds static, but there is a great deal of emotion churning beneath the surface.
- Through the window we watched the brown sea churning beneath the pier.
- The gray green water behind her thrashed and churned.
- The mantle churns as hotter material moves outward from Earth's core and colder material sinks back down, a process called thermal convection.
- I write this my stomach is churning a little with tension, remembering how it felt.
- It churned up the sea even more, and beat the yellow rain macs of the fishermen tying down tarpaulins.
- Pour in the liquid and churn until it starts to thicken and freeze.
- I nodded slowly, feeling liquids inside my head churn roughly.
- The sea was churning - almost as much as her stomach was, in nervousness.
- His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving.
- Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
- A blue substance churns and drips through a tube from one chamber to another.
- As we approach, the wide, steady river narrows and churns.
- Hopefully, if my views help make your mind churn, that adds spice to your life as well.
- They hissed and roared, churning the very sea in their great battle.
- There were eight pools of waste water, in which purplish-reddish liquid was churning.
- As the gap between the enormous hull and the quayside grew the water churned.
- Karen's stomach churns every time she takes visitors to the river.
- At times strong head-winds whipped up high waves that churned the lake surface into a frenzy, making it difficult to paddle.
Synonyms
be turbulent, heave, boil, swirl, toss, seethe, foam, froth
literary roil
disturb, stir up, agitate
ruffle
literary roil
1. 2.1 Break up the surface of (an area of ground)
  the earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through
  Example sentencesExamples
  The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters.
  Just a few weeks after the green was opened, youths on motorbikes churned up the grass, and, in one week alone, the council was forced to fork out more than £1,000 to repair damage.
  Huge earth moving machines continue to churn the ground beneath the pig farm, 18 miles east of Vancouver, in the search of more evidence.
  Furious park users claim that a popular beauty spot has been churned up by speeding quad bikes.
  She aimed her rifle at the ground, fired off a spray that churned the earth.
  Residents have complained that cars and vans have been used in races around the playing fields, churning up the grass.
  The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling.
  Elsewhere there are places where thoughtless mountain bike and motorbike riders have churned up paths.
  Turbulent tides have churned up the sea bed, disturbing rocks and natural debris such as drift wood.
  Between January and March games are always called off because mud has been churned up.
  The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres.
  All that is gone now due to a few selfish bikers who rip round all over the field, taking a delight in churning every path up and making walking a very dangerous occupation.
  But the land was churned up by riders and followers of the Bedale Hunt in pursuit of a fox last Saturday.
  About 30 boulders have been mounted on the grass verge in Wilcot Avenue to stop motorists churning up the ground.
  By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape.
  He added grass verges in the area were churned up and were disgusting and wanted to know what Colchester Council was spending taxpayers' money on.
  Mr Langton said: ‘The weather is so bad at the moment that if we try to move the car, it will churn the field up and make a real mess of the pitch.’
  Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up.
  Road safety markings in the shape of dinosaur footprints that were painted on a dangerous crossing to help children get to and from school have been churned up by workmen weeks after they were installed.
  The field has been ruined, the grass has been churned up into mud, there are piles of rubbish everywhere and it's not even been bagged.
3(of a broker) encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission.
these brokers churn the client's portfolio to generate an income for themselves
Example sentencesExamples
- And because they churn their portfolios almost by the minute, their trading volumes move markets.
- The broker appears to have churned the account and Donald let him do so.
- M&B is churning its estate as it attempts to concentrate on larger sites that make more money from selling food than from beer sales.
- This is unlike other funds which churn their portfolio in a never-ending search for hot stocks.
- Managers may churn their accounts to generate more soft dollars in order to buy services such as stock research.
- One dealer said the volume was mostly churned by traders employed by brokerage houses, with most retail investors still on the sidelines.
- He then churned the Estate account by selling perfectly reasonable shares to pay for this ill-conceived investment.
- It was the kind of fairy tale brokers tell their clients while churning their accounts.
- There seems to be no end of brokers appearing in the press and on TV these days telling us we need to churn our portfolios more often.

Phrasal Verbs

churn something out

Produce something mechanically and in large quantities.
artists continued to churn out uninteresting works
Example sentencesExamples
- This may not be the book that puts her on the bestseller list, but it's proof that she can churn them out.
- They know there's going to be a high demand for them, so they churn them out using shoddy materials.
- He adds: ‘The war was this great machine which churned out dead bodies.’
- Even as new applications are churned out, old ones need maintaining and even newer ones developing.
- I went into work early and churned out the press releases due for that week, and then began to proofread and edit some short stories and articles.
- London has always drawn in the poor and hopeful, and churned out the richer and more successful, who move out because they are worried about raising children in the city.
- Asset-price inflation may be rampant but the price of goods in the shops is falling as China continues to churn them out at an increasing rate.
- But they needed each other: the editor wanted first-rate stories and the reporter churned them out with regularity.
- Far too often today historical works are churned out in unreadable academic jargon.
- The possibilities range from injecting genes to implanting tiny machines that would churn out the necessary proteins nonstop.
- A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough.
- Katherine Ricketts is an incredible dancer and director, and it should make us proud that SFU Contemporary Arts churns out such damn good performers.
- ‘The EU is churning this legislation out like mad,’ he said.
- Today, KKGSS churns out 5,000 flags per month and in six months time, plans to make it 5,000 per day.
- Sly and the Family Stone were a veritable factory of fantastic songs, and they seemed to churn them out with no effort at all.
- As if there was a factory churning them out around the corner, they kept multiplying.
- These machines churn out umpteen cubic feet of carbon monoxide, polluting the atmosphere and killing more life forms than a few million smokers could ever do.
- Clothes were genuinely brighter in the 1960s because the development of synthetic fabrics and cheap dyeing processes meant that manufacturers could churn them out in whatever colours they wanted.
- He churns courses out, repeating what has been successful on previous designs.
- Back in Tulsa, the John Pickle Company's factory still churns out pressure vessels, many of which sit rusting near the factory gates.
- By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template.
- There, more than six kilometres of automatic conveyors, computers and state-of-the-art machinery churn out all shapes and sizes of furniture for the leisure, domestic and office markets.
- This is some of the worst television to have ever been made - and they've been churning it out for over a decade.
- Mr. Zanussi says that the Hollywood machine churns out films that exploit the debasing tendencies of man like sex and violence.
- Many operators see video-on-demand and subscription VOD as a potential cash machine that will churn out profits for many years.
- Between 1942 and '45, a total of 93 ships were churned out here - roughly one every three weeks.
- The tiny country of less than 500,000 people had a gross domestic product of $US1.85 billion in 2001 and churns out 350,000 barrels of oil a day.
- And the young people being churned out of our schools have no jobs.
- Unfortunately, there is a vast industry churning out forged documents.
- You can take your camera and one of these little machines to parties and churn out snapshots on the spot.
Synonyms
produce, make, turn out

Origin

Old English cyrin, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Low German kerne and Old Norse kirna.

Rhymes

adjourn, astern, Berne, burn, concern, discern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, learn, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, tern, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn

Definition of churn in US English:

churn

nounCHərntʃərn

1A machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream.
Example sentencesExamples
- Since about 1870, they had been in the business of manufacturing churns, butter molds, scales, thermometers, and other tools used in dairying.
- When I was small I had the job of watching the little circular window on the lid of the churn and had to shout when the glass became clear, an indication that the butter had separated.
- Mr Stone said the 38 cm metal disc was originally attached to the largest type of butter churn made by the company, which was built specifically for the large-scale production of butter.
- Jackie thought that was a mug's game, but was happy to separate the cream from the milk (by hand), and make butter in a wooden churn.
- Even better, through development work on the continuous butter churn, Tong and his team of food scientists propose the production of a butter that has a reduced fat content.
- An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway.
- The Country Living-themed event at St Mary's Church, Sand Hutton, will include a pig farm, country kitchen window, milk churns and butter churns.
- Her dress was very stately; it was mostly off-white silk, like the color of buttery cream in a churn.
- They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows.
- He has created a motorised butter churn which is an ordinary churn with an engine from a lawn mower attached underneath.
- Occasionally, when there's an abundance of milk, Janet will make butter and cheese by traditional methods using an old, hand-turned butter churn, and her daughter produces free-range bacon.
- It was also usual, although not very popular, for the one who was last downstairs to have to turn the churn handle until the cream turned into butter.
- In the center of the room stands an enormous stainless steel churn, a giant horizontal spatula on wheels to remove the butter from the churn, and a boat, or trough, into which the spatula unloads its haul.
- Mothers made butter from milk, they mixed the milk in a butter churn.
- She is a perfect mountain woman, shrewd and suspicious, quick to laugh or scowl, handy with a butter churn or a folk remedy.
- It was said that to take a coal from the fire in the house in which a churn was being made was very unlucky for the maker of the butter.
- Some of them saw us and paused at their chores, resting behind their ploughs or looking up from butter churns and gardens.
- We are one of only two remaining manufacturers in North America still using a butter churn in the making of buttermilk.
- There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn.
- The farmer agreed to do this and started churning again the next morning, in no time at all there was enough butter in the churn to supply half the countryside.
Synonyms
blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, beater, churn, whisk
2
short for churn rate

verbCHərntʃərn

1with object Agitate or turn (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter.
the cream is ripened before it is churned
Example sentencesExamples
- The sample of the sound of milk being churned into butter takes on an eerie sound that is more like a pack of marching troopers than a regular act of rural domesticity.
- Our flour comes in the shape of a loaf, our milk churned into butter/cheese.
- Suzanne makes sure that the equipment is all sprayed down, and Alastair churns the cream until it turns into butter.
- Besides milking a cow and separating off the cream, that cream has to be churned for quite a while at the right temperature, washed and salted and moulded until it's just right.
- This milk was separated into cream, being churned into butter and the skin being returned to suppliers for animal feeding.
- The organic butter you buy in the grocery store is usually made from mechanically churned cream.
- When this milk was churned, the concentration of pesticides increased; that might be the butter you spread on toast.
- If the gold ore is not refined one will not obtain the pure gold, if the milk is not churned one will not obtain butter, and if the sesame seed is not pounded one will not produce sesame oil.
- The butter plant primarily churns cream and packages butter.
Synonyms
stir, agitate
1. 1.1 Produce (butter) by churning.
  Example sentencesExamples
  An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting.
  It has its own salmon-smoking oven and churns its own butter.
  A full slate of activities also is planned, including butter churning, ice cream making and ice cream eating contests.
  The buttermaker then drains the buttermilk off and continues churning the butter until it reaches the right texture and firmness.
  His mother always made homemade bread and churned butter, and she preserved jams and a myriad of fruits and vegetables for savoring through the year.
  She was raised on a rustic Tyrolian farm where she learned to churn butter, bake bread, and store provisions for winter.
  McDermott was the lady who churned the butter at Rathscanlon.
  The rest of the afternoon was spent picking tomatoes, churning butter, washing dishes, serving, cleaning the stables and just having fun.
  Sometimes she churned fresh butter and traded it.
  While children on the frontier learned how to milk cows and churn butter, parents learned how wise 12-year-olds can be.
  She slowly gained the stamina needed for the intensely hard work of milking and churning butter.
  ‘There's something I'm good at,’ I muttered, thinking of the fine, silky butter I would churn.
  I shall just have to sit and churn butter and weave my own clothing like they did in the old days.
  Women churned butter, baked potato bread and poured Irish coffees.
  It turns out they actually live like that: their jobs are building barns and churning butter and having little card tables at farmer's markets.
  Yet Ann kept up the old tradition of churning butter.
  Little Samuel was sitting on the front porch churning butter.
  They were also expected to wash milk-pots and churn butter.
  Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth.
  Butter and cheese were being churned and sold on the streets, while a pig on a barbecue created a mouth-watering aroma that drifted through the town.
2no object (of liquid) move about vigorously.
the seas churned
figurative her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal
Example sentencesExamples
- I nodded slowly, feeling liquids inside my head churn roughly.
- The sea was churning - almost as much as her stomach was, in nervousness.
- They hissed and roared, churning the very sea in their great battle.
- At times strong head-winds whipped up high waves that churned the lake surface into a frenzy, making it difficult to paddle.
- Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
- His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving.
- Hopefully, if my views help make your mind churn, that adds spice to your life as well.
- I write this my stomach is churning a little with tension, remembering how it felt.
- It all sounds static, but there is a great deal of emotion churning beneath the surface.
- While the mixture churns, whiz the strawberries to a purée in a food processor.
- The gray green water behind her thrashed and churned.
- As we approach, the wide, steady river narrows and churns.
- There were eight pools of waste water, in which purplish-reddish liquid was churning.
- As the gap between the enormous hull and the quayside grew the water churned.
- Through the window we watched the brown sea churning beneath the pier.
- Pour in the liquid and churn until it starts to thicken and freeze.
- A blue substance churns and drips through a tube from one chamber to another.
- The mantle churns as hotter material moves outward from Earth's core and colder material sinks back down, a process called thermal convection.
- Karen's stomach churns every time she takes visitors to the river.
- It churned up the sea even more, and beat the yellow rain macs of the fishermen tying down tarpaulins.
Synonyms
be turbulent, heave, boil, swirl, toss, seethe, foam, froth
disturb, stir up, agitate
1. 2.1with object Cause (liquid) to move about vigorously.
  in high winds most of the lake is churned up
  Example sentencesExamples
  Milk is churned about when it is being transported long distances and its quality will suffer.
  At that point the hurricane began crossing over seas that had been churned up by Tropical Storm Cindy late last week.
2. 2.2with object Break up the surface of (an area of ground)
  the earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through
  Example sentencesExamples
  Road safety markings in the shape of dinosaur footprints that were painted on a dangerous crossing to help children get to and from school have been churned up by workmen weeks after they were installed.
  The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling.
  Furious park users claim that a popular beauty spot has been churned up by speeding quad bikes.
  Residents have complained that cars and vans have been used in races around the playing fields, churning up the grass.
  Mr Langton said: ‘The weather is so bad at the moment that if we try to move the car, it will churn the field up and make a real mess of the pitch.’
  Huge earth moving machines continue to churn the ground beneath the pig farm, 18 miles east of Vancouver, in the search of more evidence.
  About 30 boulders have been mounted on the grass verge in Wilcot Avenue to stop motorists churning up the ground.
  Between January and March games are always called off because mud has been churned up.
  Turbulent tides have churned up the sea bed, disturbing rocks and natural debris such as drift wood.
  But the land was churned up by riders and followers of the Bedale Hunt in pursuit of a fox last Saturday.
  The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres.
  Elsewhere there are places where thoughtless mountain bike and motorbike riders have churned up paths.
  Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up.
  All that is gone now due to a few selfish bikers who rip round all over the field, taking a delight in churning every path up and making walking a very dangerous occupation.
  The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters.
  He added grass verges in the area were churned up and were disgusting and wanted to know what Colchester Council was spending taxpayers' money on.
  The field has been ruined, the grass has been churned up into mud, there are piles of rubbish everywhere and it's not even been bagged.
  She aimed her rifle at the ground, fired off a spray that churned the earth.
  Just a few weeks after the green was opened, youths on motorbikes churned up the grass, and, in one week alone, the council was forced to fork out more than £1,000 to repair damage.
  By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape.
3with object (of a broker) encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission.
Example sentencesExamples
- There seems to be no end of brokers appearing in the press and on TV these days telling us we need to churn our portfolios more often.
- M&B is churning its estate as it attempts to concentrate on larger sites that make more money from selling food than from beer sales.
- The broker appears to have churned the account and Donald let him do so.
- This is unlike other funds which churn their portfolio in a never-ending search for hot stocks.
- It was the kind of fairy tale brokers tell their clients while churning their accounts.
- Managers may churn their accounts to generate more soft dollars in order to buy services such as stock research.
- He then churned the Estate account by selling perfectly reasonable shares to pay for this ill-conceived investment.
- One dealer said the volume was mostly churned by traders employed by brokerage houses, with most retail investors still on the sidelines.
- And because they churn their portfolios almost by the minute, their trading volumes move markets.

Phrasal Verbs

churn something out

Produce something routinely or mechanically, especially in large quantities.
artists continued to churn out insipid works
Example sentencesExamples
- This may not be the book that puts her on the bestseller list, but it's proof that she can churn them out.
- He adds: ‘The war was this great machine which churned out dead bodies.’
- These machines churn out umpteen cubic feet of carbon monoxide, polluting the atmosphere and killing more life forms than a few million smokers could ever do.
- Asset-price inflation may be rampant but the price of goods in the shops is falling as China continues to churn them out at an increasing rate.
- Mr. Zanussi says that the Hollywood machine churns out films that exploit the debasing tendencies of man like sex and violence.
- Sly and the Family Stone were a veritable factory of fantastic songs, and they seemed to churn them out with no effort at all.
- This is some of the worst television to have ever been made - and they've been churning it out for over a decade.
- They know there's going to be a high demand for them, so they churn them out using shoddy materials.
- I went into work early and churned out the press releases due for that week, and then began to proofread and edit some short stories and articles.
- As if there was a factory churning them out around the corner, they kept multiplying.
- He churns courses out, repeating what has been successful on previous designs.
- By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template.
- Katherine Ricketts is an incredible dancer and director, and it should make us proud that SFU Contemporary Arts churns out such damn good performers.
- Between 1942 and '45, a total of 93 ships were churned out here - roughly one every three weeks.
- Back in Tulsa, the John Pickle Company's factory still churns out pressure vessels, many of which sit rusting near the factory gates.
- A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough.
- And the young people being churned out of our schools have no jobs.
- But they needed each other: the editor wanted first-rate stories and the reporter churned them out with regularity.
- ‘The EU is churning this legislation out like mad,’ he said.
- Many operators see video-on-demand and subscription VOD as a potential cash machine that will churn out profits for many years.
- Far too often today historical works are churned out in unreadable academic jargon.
- Clothes were genuinely brighter in the 1960s because the development of synthetic fabrics and cheap dyeing processes meant that manufacturers could churn them out in whatever colours they wanted.
- The tiny country of less than 500,000 people had a gross domestic product of $US1.85 billion in 2001 and churns out 350,000 barrels of oil a day.
- London has always drawn in the poor and hopeful, and churned out the richer and more successful, who move out because they are worried about raising children in the city.
- There, more than six kilometres of automatic conveyors, computers and state-of-the-art machinery churn out all shapes and sizes of furniture for the leisure, domestic and office markets.
- Unfortunately, there is a vast industry churning out forged documents.
- Today, KKGSS churns out 5,000 flags per month and in six months time, plans to make it 5,000 per day.
- You can take your camera and one of these little machines to parties and churn out snapshots on the spot.
- Even as new applications are churned out, old ones need maintaining and even newer ones developing.
- The possibilities range from injecting genes to implanting tiny machines that would churn out the necessary proteins nonstop.
Synonyms
produce, make, turn out

Origin

Old English cyrin, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Low German kerne and Old Norse kirna.

单词	churn
释义	Definition of churn in English: churn noun tʃəːntʃərn 1A machine for making butter by shaking milk or cream. Example sentencesExamples The Country Living-themed event at St Mary's Church, Sand Hutton, will include a pig farm, country kitchen window, milk churns and butter churns. We are one of only two remaining manufacturers in North America still using a butter churn in the making of buttermilk. Jackie thought that was a mug's game, but was happy to separate the cream from the milk (by hand), and make butter in a wooden churn. Mr Stone said the 38 cm metal disc was originally attached to the largest type of butter churn made by the company, which was built specifically for the large-scale production of butter. Since about 1870, they had been in the business of manufacturing churns, butter molds, scales, thermometers, and other tools used in dairying. Occasionally, when there's an abundance of milk, Janet will make butter and cheese by traditional methods using an old, hand-turned butter churn, and her daughter produces free-range bacon. Some of them saw us and paused at their chores, resting behind their ploughs or looking up from butter churns and gardens. She is a perfect mountain woman, shrewd and suspicious, quick to laugh or scowl, handy with a butter churn or a folk remedy. Even better, through development work on the continuous butter churn, Tong and his team of food scientists propose the production of a butter that has a reduced fat content. Mothers made butter from milk, they mixed the milk in a butter churn. They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows. The farmer agreed to do this and started churning again the next morning, in no time at all there was enough butter in the churn to supply half the countryside. An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway. When I was small I had the job of watching the little circular window on the lid of the churn and had to shout when the glass became clear, an indication that the butter had separated. It was also usual, although not very popular, for the one who was last downstairs to have to turn the churn handle until the cream turned into butter. Her dress was very stately; it was mostly off-white silk, like the color of buttery cream in a churn. It was said that to take a coal from the fire in the house in which a churn was being made was very unlucky for the maker of the butter. He has created a motorised butter churn which is an ordinary churn with an engine from a lawn mower attached underneath. In the center of the room stands an enormous stainless steel churn, a giant horizontal spatula on wheels to remove the butter from the churn, and a boat, or trough, into which the spatula unloads its haul. There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn. Synonyms blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, beater, churn, whisk 2British A large metal container for milk. the fresh creamy milk sat in a churn in the kitchen a milk churn Example sentencesExamples The milk was offered from a metal churn and the ladles hung from it. I started when I was nine years old going round with my father with a horse and float with milk churns. Since returning to his plot in October his hut has been burnt down and he has lost tools, milk churns and chicken feed totalling well over £100. Hoops of plant stems woven and placed under milk storage jugs, pails and churns would prevent milk being spirited away by fairies. The farmers would bring their milk in churns, and the system was that the Department of Agriculture bought it from the farmers, and then they sold it to us. When he had finished, he poured the milk into the big churns and washed the buckets. I can still hear the clang of the milk churns as they were dropped at the back door and smell the scent of sweet, evocative vanilla and hot milk that wafted up to my room. In those days his dad and uncle Derek ran their business from Moorhouse Farm, delivering the milk from churns carried on horse-drawn floats with wooden wheels. In the early days farmers would bring their churn of milk to the creamery by whatever means was available to them, horse and cart, donkey and cart or tractor and trailer. Milk churns and dairymaids are making a comeback on a Sheffield housing estate where South Yorkshire's first urban dairy will start producing cheese commercially next month. Hathaway milk churns were made from wood, and were fitted with a trademark red iron plate. They were fortunate to have the milk lorry pass by the farm gate, so one of the lads would help the driver to lift the churns up onto the lorry each morning, earlier on a Sunday so that the driver could finish a bit earlier. The folk culture of the North British backcountry, translated to the Appalachian highlands of America, held that it was unlucky to wash a milk churn. In addition to the pre-war team groups, the paper often featured old pictures of the town - horse drawn carts, rattling with milk churns, wending their way down foggy, gas-lit streets and the like. Cosgrove's father had been a lorry driver for the local creamery, driving milk churns round the houses and farms in Perthshire. 3 short for churn rate verb tʃəːntʃərn [with object] 1Shake (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter. the cream is ripened before it is churned Example sentencesExamples The butter plant primarily churns cream and packages butter. Our flour comes in the shape of a loaf, our milk churned into butter/cheese. The organic butter you buy in the grocery store is usually made from mechanically churned cream. The sample of the sound of milk being churned into butter takes on an eerie sound that is more like a pack of marching troopers than a regular act of rural domesticity. This milk was separated into cream, being churned into butter and the skin being returned to suppliers for animal feeding. When this milk was churned, the concentration of pesticides increased; that might be the butter you spread on toast. Besides milking a cow and separating off the cream, that cream has to be churned for quite a while at the right temperature, washed and salted and moulded until it's just right. Suzanne makes sure that the equipment is all sprayed down, and Alastair churns the cream until it turns into butter. If the gold ore is not refined one will not obtain the pure gold, if the milk is not churned one will not obtain butter, and if the sesame seed is not pounded one will not produce sesame oil. Synonyms stir, agitate beat, whip, whisk 1.1 Produce (butter) by churning milk or cream. the women were churning butter and making cheese Example sentencesExamples Sometimes she churned fresh butter and traded it. Little Samuel was sitting on the front porch churning butter. She was raised on a rustic Tyrolian farm where she learned to churn butter, bake bread, and store provisions for winter. It turns out they actually live like that: their jobs are building barns and churning butter and having little card tables at farmer's markets. Butter and cheese were being churned and sold on the streets, while a pig on a barbecue created a mouth-watering aroma that drifted through the town. She slowly gained the stamina needed for the intensely hard work of milking and churning butter. Women churned butter, baked potato bread and poured Irish coffees. I shall just have to sit and churn butter and weave my own clothing like they did in the old days. An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting. His mother always made homemade bread and churned butter, and she preserved jams and a myriad of fruits and vegetables for savoring through the year. The rest of the afternoon was spent picking tomatoes, churning butter, washing dishes, serving, cleaning the stables and just having fun. The buttermaker then drains the buttermilk off and continues churning the butter until it reaches the right texture and firmness. ‘There's something I'm good at,’ I muttered, thinking of the fine, silky butter I would churn. While children on the frontier learned how to milk cows and churn butter, parents learned how wise 12-year-olds can be. McDermott was the lady who churned the butter at Rathscanlon. It has its own salmon-smoking oven and churns its own butter. Yet Ann kept up the old tradition of churning butter. Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth. A full slate of activities also is planned, including butter churning, ice cream making and ice cream eating contests. They were also expected to wash milk-pots and churn butter. 2(with reference to liquid) move or cause to move about vigorously. no object the seas churned figurative her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal with object in high winds most of the loch is churned up Example sentencesExamples While the mixture churns, whiz the strawberries to a purée in a food processor. It all sounds static, but there is a great deal of emotion churning beneath the surface. Through the window we watched the brown sea churning beneath the pier. The gray green water behind her thrashed and churned. The mantle churns as hotter material moves outward from Earth's core and colder material sinks back down, a process called thermal convection. I write this my stomach is churning a little with tension, remembering how it felt. It churned up the sea even more, and beat the yellow rain macs of the fishermen tying down tarpaulins. Pour in the liquid and churn until it starts to thicken and freeze. I nodded slowly, feeling liquids inside my head churn roughly. The sea was churning - almost as much as her stomach was, in nervousness. His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving. Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount. A blue substance churns and drips through a tube from one chamber to another. As we approach, the wide, steady river narrows and churns. Hopefully, if my views help make your mind churn, that adds spice to your life as well. They hissed and roared, churning the very sea in their great battle. There were eight pools of waste water, in which purplish-reddish liquid was churning. As the gap between the enormous hull and the quayside grew the water churned. Karen's stomach churns every time she takes visitors to the river. At times strong head-winds whipped up high waves that churned the lake surface into a frenzy, making it difficult to paddle. Synonyms be turbulent, heave, boil, swirl, toss, seethe, foam, froth literary roil disturb, stir up, agitate ruffle literary roil 2.1 Break up the surface of (an area of ground) the earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through Example sentencesExamples The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters. Just a few weeks after the green was opened, youths on motorbikes churned up the grass, and, in one week alone, the council was forced to fork out more than £1,000 to repair damage. Huge earth moving machines continue to churn the ground beneath the pig farm, 18 miles east of Vancouver, in the search of more evidence. Furious park users claim that a popular beauty spot has been churned up by speeding quad bikes. She aimed her rifle at the ground, fired off a spray that churned the earth. Residents have complained that cars and vans have been used in races around the playing fields, churning up the grass. The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling. Elsewhere there are places where thoughtless mountain bike and motorbike riders have churned up paths. Turbulent tides have churned up the sea bed, disturbing rocks and natural debris such as drift wood. Between January and March games are always called off because mud has been churned up. The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres. All that is gone now due to a few selfish bikers who rip round all over the field, taking a delight in churning every path up and making walking a very dangerous occupation. But the land was churned up by riders and followers of the Bedale Hunt in pursuit of a fox last Saturday. About 30 boulders have been mounted on the grass verge in Wilcot Avenue to stop motorists churning up the ground. By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape. He added grass verges in the area were churned up and were disgusting and wanted to know what Colchester Council was spending taxpayers' money on. Mr Langton said: ‘The weather is so bad at the moment that if we try to move the car, it will churn the field up and make a real mess of the pitch.’ Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up. Road safety markings in the shape of dinosaur footprints that were painted on a dangerous crossing to help children get to and from school have been churned up by workmen weeks after they were installed. The field has been ruined, the grass has been churned up into mud, there are piles of rubbish everywhere and it's not even been bagged. 3(of a broker) encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission. these brokers churn the client's portfolio to generate an income for themselves Example sentencesExamples And because they churn their portfolios almost by the minute, their trading volumes move markets. The broker appears to have churned the account and Donald let him do so. M&B is churning its estate as it attempts to concentrate on larger sites that make more money from selling food than from beer sales. This is unlike other funds which churn their portfolio in a never-ending search for hot stocks. Managers may churn their accounts to generate more soft dollars in order to buy services such as stock research. One dealer said the volume was mostly churned by traders employed by brokerage houses, with most retail investors still on the sidelines. He then churned the Estate account by selling perfectly reasonable shares to pay for this ill-conceived investment. It was the kind of fairy tale brokers tell their clients while churning their accounts. There seems to be no end of brokers appearing in the press and on TV these days telling us we need to churn our portfolios more often. Phrasal Verbs churn something out Produce something mechanically and in large quantities. artists continued to churn out uninteresting works Example sentencesExamples This may not be the book that puts her on the bestseller list, but it's proof that she can churn them out. They know there's going to be a high demand for them, so they churn them out using shoddy materials. He adds: ‘The war was this great machine which churned out dead bodies.’ Even as new applications are churned out, old ones need maintaining and even newer ones developing. I went into work early and churned out the press releases due for that week, and then began to proofread and edit some short stories and articles. London has always drawn in the poor and hopeful, and churned out the richer and more successful, who move out because they are worried about raising children in the city. Asset-price inflation may be rampant but the price of goods in the shops is falling as China continues to churn them out at an increasing rate. But they needed each other: the editor wanted first-rate stories and the reporter churned them out with regularity. Far too often today historical works are churned out in unreadable academic jargon. The possibilities range from injecting genes to implanting tiny machines that would churn out the necessary proteins nonstop. A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough. Katherine Ricketts is an incredible dancer and director, and it should make us proud that SFU Contemporary Arts churns out such damn good performers. ‘The EU is churning this legislation out like mad,’ he said. Today, KKGSS churns out 5,000 flags per month and in six months time, plans to make it 5,000 per day. Sly and the Family Stone were a veritable factory of fantastic songs, and they seemed to churn them out with no effort at all. As if there was a factory churning them out around the corner, they kept multiplying. These machines churn out umpteen cubic feet of carbon monoxide, polluting the atmosphere and killing more life forms than a few million smokers could ever do. Clothes were genuinely brighter in the 1960s because the development of synthetic fabrics and cheap dyeing processes meant that manufacturers could churn them out in whatever colours they wanted. He churns courses out, repeating what has been successful on previous designs. Back in Tulsa, the John Pickle Company's factory still churns out pressure vessels, many of which sit rusting near the factory gates. By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template. There, more than six kilometres of automatic conveyors, computers and state-of-the-art machinery churn out all shapes and sizes of furniture for the leisure, domestic and office markets. This is some of the worst television to have ever been made - and they've been churning it out for over a decade. Mr. Zanussi says that the Hollywood machine churns out films that exploit the debasing tendencies of man like sex and violence. Many operators see video-on-demand and subscription VOD as a potential cash machine that will churn out profits for many years. Between 1942 and '45, a total of 93 ships were churned out here - roughly one every three weeks. The tiny country of less than 500,000 people had a gross domestic product of $US1.85 billion in 2001 and churns out 350,000 barrels of oil a day. And the young people being churned out of our schools have no jobs. Unfortunately, there is a vast industry churning out forged documents. You can take your camera and one of these little machines to parties and churn out snapshots on the spot. Synonyms produce, make, turn out Origin Old English cyrin, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Low German kerne and Old Norse kirna. Rhymes adjourn, astern, Berne, burn, concern, discern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, learn, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, tern, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn noun.1 phr.v. Definition of churn in US English: churn nounCHərntʃərn 1A machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream. Example sentencesExamples Since about 1870, they had been in the business of manufacturing churns, butter molds, scales, thermometers, and other tools used in dairying. When I was small I had the job of watching the little circular window on the lid of the churn and had to shout when the glass became clear, an indication that the butter had separated. Mr Stone said the 38 cm metal disc was originally attached to the largest type of butter churn made by the company, which was built specifically for the large-scale production of butter. Jackie thought that was a mug's game, but was happy to separate the cream from the milk (by hand), and make butter in a wooden churn. Even better, through development work on the continuous butter churn, Tong and his team of food scientists propose the production of a butter that has a reduced fat content. An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway. The Country Living-themed event at St Mary's Church, Sand Hutton, will include a pig farm, country kitchen window, milk churns and butter churns. Her dress was very stately; it was mostly off-white silk, like the color of buttery cream in a churn. They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows. He has created a motorised butter churn which is an ordinary churn with an engine from a lawn mower attached underneath. Occasionally, when there's an abundance of milk, Janet will make butter and cheese by traditional methods using an old, hand-turned butter churn, and her daughter produces free-range bacon. It was also usual, although not very popular, for the one who was last downstairs to have to turn the churn handle until the cream turned into butter. In the center of the room stands an enormous stainless steel churn, a giant horizontal spatula on wheels to remove the butter from the churn, and a boat, or trough, into which the spatula unloads its haul. Mothers made butter from milk, they mixed the milk in a butter churn. She is a perfect mountain woman, shrewd and suspicious, quick to laugh or scowl, handy with a butter churn or a folk remedy. It was said that to take a coal from the fire in the house in which a churn was being made was very unlucky for the maker of the butter. Some of them saw us and paused at their chores, resting behind their ploughs or looking up from butter churns and gardens. We are one of only two remaining manufacturers in North America still using a butter churn in the making of buttermilk. There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn. The farmer agreed to do this and started churning again the next morning, in no time at all there was enough butter in the churn to supply half the countryside. Synonyms blender, food processor, liquidizer, stirrer, beater, churn, whisk 2 short for churn rate verbCHərntʃərn 1with object Agitate or turn (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter. the cream is ripened before it is churned Example sentencesExamples The sample of the sound of milk being churned into butter takes on an eerie sound that is more like a pack of marching troopers than a regular act of rural domesticity. Our flour comes in the shape of a loaf, our milk churned into butter/cheese. Suzanne makes sure that the equipment is all sprayed down, and Alastair churns the cream until it turns into butter. Besides milking a cow and separating off the cream, that cream has to be churned for quite a while at the right temperature, washed and salted and moulded until it's just right. This milk was separated into cream, being churned into butter and the skin being returned to suppliers for animal feeding. The organic butter you buy in the grocery store is usually made from mechanically churned cream. When this milk was churned, the concentration of pesticides increased; that might be the butter you spread on toast. If the gold ore is not refined one will not obtain the pure gold, if the milk is not churned one will not obtain butter, and if the sesame seed is not pounded one will not produce sesame oil. The butter plant primarily churns cream and packages butter. Synonyms stir, agitate 1.1 Produce (butter) by churning. Example sentencesExamples An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting. It has its own salmon-smoking oven and churns its own butter. A full slate of activities also is planned, including butter churning, ice cream making and ice cream eating contests. The buttermaker then drains the buttermilk off and continues churning the butter until it reaches the right texture and firmness. His mother always made homemade bread and churned butter, and she preserved jams and a myriad of fruits and vegetables for savoring through the year. She was raised on a rustic Tyrolian farm where she learned to churn butter, bake bread, and store provisions for winter. McDermott was the lady who churned the butter at Rathscanlon. The rest of the afternoon was spent picking tomatoes, churning butter, washing dishes, serving, cleaning the stables and just having fun. Sometimes she churned fresh butter and traded it. While children on the frontier learned how to milk cows and churn butter, parents learned how wise 12-year-olds can be. She slowly gained the stamina needed for the intensely hard work of milking and churning butter. ‘There's something I'm good at,’ I muttered, thinking of the fine, silky butter I would churn. I shall just have to sit and churn butter and weave my own clothing like they did in the old days. Women churned butter, baked potato bread and poured Irish coffees. It turns out they actually live like that: their jobs are building barns and churning butter and having little card tables at farmer's markets. Yet Ann kept up the old tradition of churning butter. Little Samuel was sitting on the front porch churning butter. They were also expected to wash milk-pots and churn butter. Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth. Butter and cheese were being churned and sold on the streets, while a pig on a barbecue created a mouth-watering aroma that drifted through the town. 2no object (of liquid) move about vigorously. the seas churned figurative her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal Example sentencesExamples I nodded slowly, feeling liquids inside my head churn roughly. The sea was churning - almost as much as her stomach was, in nervousness. They hissed and roared, churning the very sea in their great battle. At times strong head-winds whipped up high waves that churned the lake surface into a frenzy, making it difficult to paddle. Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount. His hands were quivering, and his stomach felt as though it were churning and moving. Hopefully, if my views help make your mind churn, that adds spice to your life as well. I write this my stomach is churning a little with tension, remembering how it felt. It all sounds static, but there is a great deal of emotion churning beneath the surface. While the mixture churns, whiz the strawberries to a purée in a food processor. The gray green water behind her thrashed and churned. As we approach, the wide, steady river narrows and churns. There were eight pools of waste water, in which purplish-reddish liquid was churning. As the gap between the enormous hull and the quayside grew the water churned. Through the window we watched the brown sea churning beneath the pier. Pour in the liquid and churn until it starts to thicken and freeze. A blue substance churns and drips through a tube from one chamber to another. The mantle churns as hotter material moves outward from Earth's core and colder material sinks back down, a process called thermal convection. Karen's stomach churns every time she takes visitors to the river. It churned up the sea even more, and beat the yellow rain macs of the fishermen tying down tarpaulins. Synonyms be turbulent, heave, boil, swirl, toss, seethe, foam, froth disturb, stir up, agitate 2.1with object Cause (liquid) to move about vigorously. in high winds most of the lake is churned up Example sentencesExamples Milk is churned about when it is being transported long distances and its quality will suffer. At that point the hurricane began crossing over seas that had been churned up by Tropical Storm Cindy late last week. 2.2with object Break up the surface of (an area of ground) the earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through Example sentencesExamples Road safety markings in the shape of dinosaur footprints that were painted on a dangerous crossing to help children get to and from school have been churned up by workmen weeks after they were installed. The whole of the Market Place has been revamped at vast expense and if it were churned up now it would be quite appalling. Furious park users claim that a popular beauty spot has been churned up by speeding quad bikes. Residents have complained that cars and vans have been used in races around the playing fields, churning up the grass. Mr Langton said: ‘The weather is so bad at the moment that if we try to move the car, it will churn the field up and make a real mess of the pitch.’ Huge earth moving machines continue to churn the ground beneath the pig farm, 18 miles east of Vancouver, in the search of more evidence. About 30 boulders have been mounted on the grass verge in Wilcot Avenue to stop motorists churning up the ground. Between January and March games are always called off because mud has been churned up. Turbulent tides have churned up the sea bed, disturbing rocks and natural debris such as drift wood. But the land was churned up by riders and followers of the Bedale Hunt in pursuit of a fox last Saturday. The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres. Elsewhere there are places where thoughtless mountain bike and motorbike riders have churned up paths. Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up. All that is gone now due to a few selfish bikers who rip round all over the field, taking a delight in churning every path up and making walking a very dangerous occupation. The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters. He added grass verges in the area were churned up and were disgusting and wanted to know what Colchester Council was spending taxpayers' money on. The field has been ruined, the grass has been churned up into mud, there are piles of rubbish everywhere and it's not even been bagged. She aimed her rifle at the ground, fired off a spray that churned the earth. Just a few weeks after the green was opened, youths on motorbikes churned up the grass, and, in one week alone, the council was forced to fork out more than £1,000 to repair damage. By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape. 3with object (of a broker) encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission. Example sentencesExamples There seems to be no end of brokers appearing in the press and on TV these days telling us we need to churn our portfolios more often. M&B is churning its estate as it attempts to concentrate on larger sites that make more money from selling food than from beer sales. The broker appears to have churned the account and Donald let him do so. This is unlike other funds which churn their portfolio in a never-ending search for hot stocks. It was the kind of fairy tale brokers tell their clients while churning their accounts. Managers may churn their accounts to generate more soft dollars in order to buy services such as stock research. He then churned the Estate account by selling perfectly reasonable shares to pay for this ill-conceived investment. One dealer said the volume was mostly churned by traders employed by brokerage houses, with most retail investors still on the sidelines. And because they churn their portfolios almost by the minute, their trading volumes move markets. Phrasal Verbs churn something out Produce something routinely or mechanically, especially in large quantities. artists continued to churn out insipid works Example sentencesExamples This may not be the book that puts her on the bestseller list, but it's proof that she can churn them out. He adds: ‘The war was this great machine which churned out dead bodies.’ These machines churn out umpteen cubic feet of carbon monoxide, polluting the atmosphere and killing more life forms than a few million smokers could ever do. Asset-price inflation may be rampant but the price of goods in the shops is falling as China continues to churn them out at an increasing rate. Mr. Zanussi says that the Hollywood machine churns out films that exploit the debasing tendencies of man like sex and violence. Sly and the Family Stone were a veritable factory of fantastic songs, and they seemed to churn them out with no effort at all. This is some of the worst television to have ever been made - and they've been churning it out for over a decade. They know there's going to be a high demand for them, so they churn them out using shoddy materials. I went into work early and churned out the press releases due for that week, and then began to proofread and edit some short stories and articles. As if there was a factory churning them out around the corner, they kept multiplying. He churns courses out, repeating what has been successful on previous designs. By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template. Katherine Ricketts is an incredible dancer and director, and it should make us proud that SFU Contemporary Arts churns out such damn good performers. Between 1942 and '45, a total of 93 ships were churned out here - roughly one every three weeks. Back in Tulsa, the John Pickle Company's factory still churns out pressure vessels, many of which sit rusting near the factory gates. A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough. And the young people being churned out of our schools have no jobs. But they needed each other: the editor wanted first-rate stories and the reporter churned them out with regularity. ‘The EU is churning this legislation out like mad,’ he said. Many operators see video-on-demand and subscription VOD as a potential cash machine that will churn out profits for many years. Far too often today historical works are churned out in unreadable academic jargon. Clothes were genuinely brighter in the 1960s because the development of synthetic fabrics and cheap dyeing processes meant that manufacturers could churn them out in whatever colours they wanted. The tiny country of less than 500,000 people had a gross domestic product of $US1.85 billion in 2001 and churns out 350,000 barrels of oil a day. London has always drawn in the poor and hopeful, and churned out the richer and more successful, who move out because they are worried about raising children in the city. There, more than six kilometres of automatic conveyors, computers and state-of-the-art machinery churn out all shapes and sizes of furniture for the leisure, domestic and office markets. Unfortunately, there is a vast industry churning out forged documents. Today, KKGSS churns out 5,000 flags per month and in six months time, plans to make it 5,000 per day. You can take your camera and one of these little machines to parties and churn out snapshots on the spot. Even as new applications are churned out, old ones need maintaining and even newer ones developing. The possibilities range from injecting genes to implanting tiny machines that would churn out the necessary proteins nonstop. Synonyms produce, make, turn out Origin Old English cyrin, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Low German kerne and Old Norse kirna. noun.1 phr.v.
随便看	drop one's bundle drop one's bundle drop one's guard drop one's guard drop one's serve drop one's serve drop one's trousers drop one's trousers drop out dropout drop-out drop out dropout factories dropout factory drop out of dropouts dropouts drop-outs drop over droppable droppable dropped dropped dropped goal dropped handlebars