Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of operating a churn.
- noun The motion of a churn, or a motion which resembles that of a churn.
- noun As much butter as is made at one time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who churns.
- noun The quantity of butter made at one operation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
churn . - noun The act by which something is
churned .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation
- adjective (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
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Examples
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Whether from the boat in churning seas or the driftwood lined shores of the Pacific Northwest she never misses a beat -- or a downed bird.
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Whether from the boat in churning seas or the driftwood lined shores of the Pacific Northwest she never misses a beat -- or a downed bird.
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House GOP leaders are ready to immediately begin churning out bills to make good on their campaign promises to tea-party activists — even if they are doomed to fail in the Senate.
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TV writers and producers seem to lose touch with the real power of storytelling as they get further emeshed in churning out product.
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House GOP leaders are ready to immediately begin churning out bills to make good on their campaign promises to tea-party activists — even if they are doomed to fail in the Senate.
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So they do have a history in churning out decent spoof movies.
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"Butter churning is typically a female activity," Green explained.
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But he seems to be taking up a sideline in churning out farcical, desperate attempts to demonstrate the harms of atheism now too.
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Down a short hill from our cabin, Grand Lake Stream flowed frothing and churning from the outlet dam on West Grand Lake.
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“Such are the fortunes of Mr. Mezrich, 34, who, in churning out a kind of impressionistic nonfiction set in the circle of well-educated young men and their adventures in wealth-building, has created the genre analogue to what publishers call chick lit,” writes Ginia Bellafante.
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