CHURN
What does "CHURN" mean?
To stir or agitate something, especially cream, with vigorous repeated motion.
Meanings
- To agitate milk or cream repeatedly to make butter. On the farm they still churn their own butter by hand.
- To move or stir something about with great force or turbulence. The propellers churned the dark water into white foam.
- To produce something in large quantities, often mechanically or without care. The studio churns out three sequels a year. figurative
- The rate at which customers stop using a product or service. The startup cut its monthly churn from 8 percent to 3 percent. technical
- A container in which cream is beaten into butter. An old wooden churn stood in the corner of the dairy.
Word origin
From Old English 'cyrin', a churn for making butter, related to Old Norse 'kirna'.
Remember it
CHURN starts like 'CHURl' and ends with the URN you spin - picture cream turning in an urn.
A little poem
Round and round the cream-
from liquid patience, slowly,
a gold weight is born.
haiku
Wordplay
- The dairy and the SaaS company both worried about churn - one wanted more, the other wanted none.
What it teaches
Steady agitation makes butter or madness - the difference is whether you know what you're making.
Quick facts
What does CHURN mean?
To stir or agitate something, especially cream, with vigorous repeated motion.
Is CHURN a valid word?
Yes — CHURN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHURN?
CHURN has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHURN come from?
From Old English 'cyrin', a churn for making butter, related to Old Norse 'kirna'.
What can CHURN teach us?
Steady agitation makes butter or madness - the difference is whether you know what you're making.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.