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churn 1, verb(dictionary)
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CAB (iou) and churn (iou)


CAB (iou)



CAB abbreviation.
Citizens' Advice Bureau.
Civil Aeronautics Board. US.

churn (iou)



churn noun & verb.

A. noun.
A butter-making machine in which milk or cream is agitated; a large milk-can (orig. one shaped like a butter-churn). OE.
A churning action or sensation. L19.
b. verb.
verb trans. & intrans. Agitate (milk or cream) in a churn; produce (butter) thus. LME.
verb trans. Stir (liquid etc.) about, cause to froth; agitate violently; turn or throw up violently. L17.
W. Holtby The wagon wheels had churned the yard to treacly clay. J. Betjeman Bills to pay later churned up my insides.
verb intrans. Move churning up water, earth, etc.; turn like a churn; (of liquid etc.) wash to and fro, foam, seethe. M18.
S. O'Faolain Rain-water churning down the rocky valleys. R. Chandler The ventilator churned dully. C. S. Forester Churning along over Salisbury Plain on a bicycle with worn sprocket wheels. W. Styron I felt my stomach churn and heave.
verb trans. Foll. by out: produce in quantity rather than quality. E20.
Comb.: churn-milk (now dial.) buttermilk; churn-owl (now dial.) the nightjar; churn rate the annual percentage rate at which customers discontinue using a service, esp. cable and satellite Television; churn-staff a staff for agitating milk or cream in a standing churn.
churna'bility noun the readiness (of fats in milk or cream) to form butter in churning L19.
churnable adjective (of fats in milk or cream) ready to form butter in churning E20.
churner noun a person who or machine which churns L19.
churning verbal noun (a) the action or process of the verb; (b) colloq. the buying and selling of a client's investments for the sole purpose of earning more commission: LME.