churn

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n. 搅乳器 v. 搅拌, 搅动

发音

UK /tʃɜːn/
US /t͡ʃɝn/

词形变化

churns 复数 churns churned churnest churneth churning churns 三单 churning 现在分词 churned 过去式 churned 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

搅乳器

动词

搅拌；搅动

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

    搅乳器

    可数 不可数

    a butter churn

  2. 2.

    A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.

    不可数 商务 可数
  4. 4.

    The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.

    可数 不可数 媒体 工程
  5. 5.

    The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.

    可数 不可数 媒体 工程
  6. 6.

    Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    The last grain cut at harvest; kern.

    可数 历史 不可数
v. C1
  1. 1.

    To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

    搅

    及物

    Now the cream is churned to make butter.

    no-churn ice cream

  2. 2.

    To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

    翻腾

    比喻 及物
  3. 3.

    To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.

    不及物

    I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.

  4. 4.

    To stop using a company's product or service.

    商务
  5. 5.

    To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.

    非正式 航空 商务 工程 交通
  6. 6.

    To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.

    美国 非正式 商务 金融 交通
  7. 7.

    To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.

    商务 金融
  8. 8.

    To digest.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

vessel
动词

同义词 3

boil moil roil

上位词 2

move stir

下位词 2

roll seethe

相关短语

churn out 艰苦地做出 churn and burn churn up 搅拌 churn drill churn drills churn rate 用户变动率 churn rates churn supper churn suppers milk churn swing churn

词源

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.

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