churn

(Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
3. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
4. To stop using a company's product or service.
5. (informal) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
6. (US, informal) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
7. To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
2. (countable, uncountable) A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
3. (uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
4. (countable, uncountable) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
5. (countable, uncountable) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
6. (countable, uncountable) Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
7. (countable, historical, uncountable) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tʃɜːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: chyrne

Heredado de inglés antiguo: ċyrn

Heredado de inglés medio: chyrnen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: ċernan

Cognado con frisón occidental: tsjerne

Cognado con neerlandés: karn

Cognado con valón: serene

Cognado con alemán: Karn

Cognado con noruego bokmal: kjerne

Cognado con danés: kærne

Cognado con sueco: kärna

Cognado con islandés: kirna

In summary

Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.

Conceptos

mantequera

agitar

lechera

batir

revolver

Sinónimos

stir

stir up

can

roil

boil

agitate

disturb

moil

seethe

shake up

beat

bubble

oil mill

butter churn

shake

🫨

roll

ransack

turnover

flog

fuddle

intermix

lambaste

lash

lick

milk

🥛

mix

mix up

muddle

mystify

obscure

perplex

riddle

scourge

scramble

shellac

spank

squirm

stimulate

stump

throw

trounce

twiddle

unsettle

whip

whop

wriggle

water-can

spudder

produce by churning

stir round

Traducciones

baratter

baratte

Butterfass

zangola

aufwühlen

durchschütteln

karnen

buttern

manteguera

Rührtrommel

ribollire

Butterfertiger

agiter

schäumen

verbuttern