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# churn

«churn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a container in which cream or milk is shaken or stirred…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (churn, churns, churned, churning); noun (a churn, churns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A churn is a container in which cream or milk is shaken or stirred to make butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#m1)

2) To churn is to stir or shake milk or cream to make butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#m2)

3) To churn is to move or stir water, mud or earth around violently: «The boat churned up the water.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#m3)

4) If your stomach churns, you feel sick, often from worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#m4)

5) To churn out is to make lots of something quickly, often without care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, butter-making in a churn shows how shaking cream turns it into butter and buttermilk (a change of state you can try in a jar). In stories, stormy seas churn and a nervous character's stomach churns. Phrases: «churn butter», «churn up», «my stomach churned», «churn out».

### examples

- In the old days, people made butter in a wooden churn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x1)
- We shook cream in a jar to churn our own butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x2)
- The tractor churned up the muddy field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x3)
- The boat's engine churned the water white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x4)
- My stomach churned before my turn on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x5)
- The waves churned around the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x6)
- The factory churns out thousands of toys a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x7)
- Farmers carried milk in metal churns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x8)
- "This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/#x9)

### note

Past: churned. «Churn» rhymes with «turn». A «milk churn» is also a big metal can for carrying milk. Try at home: shake a jar of cream for about 10 minutes and butter appears.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «churn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/churn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.