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churn1 verbchurn2 noun churnchurn1 /tʃɜːn $ tʃɜːrn/ ●○○ verb VERB TABLEchurn |
Present | I, you, we, they | churn | | he, she, it | churns | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | churned | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have churned | | he, she, it | has churned | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had churned | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will churn | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have churned |
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Present | I | am churning | | he, she, it | is churning | | you, we, they | are churning | Past | I, he, she, it | was churning | | you, we, they | were churning | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been churning | | he, she, it | has been churning | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been churning | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be churning | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been churning |
- He was now churning out drawings at a tremendous rate.
- Lowe knew the sects and the papers they churned out were going nowhere.
- My mind churned with countless plots and schemes, conjuring up acts of untold terror and devastation.
- Once he mastered the formula, he could churn out scripts, finishing one in a record 24 hours.
- This crowd must churn with pseudonyms, with noms de guerre.
to make something► make to produce something which did not exist before: · Diane makes all her own clothes.· The furniture was made by a Swedish firm.· They've just finished making a movie about life during the Civil War.· My camera was made in Taiwan.make somebody something: · I'll make you a coffee, shall I?be made of something (=to be made using a particular substance): · a bag made of leatherbe made from something (=to be made by putting together different materials, substances, or parts): · People were living in huts made from mud, stones, and straw.make something out of/from something: · You could make some cushion covers out of those curtains. ► produce to make large quantities of food, equipment, or other goods by means of industrial processes: · The dairy produced over 1500 tonnes of butter per year.· They produce cheap goods for export to the United States.· a factory that produces high-quality steel ► manufacture to make machines, equipment, cars etc in factories: · He works for a small company manufacturing aluminium products.· The car was designed, developed, and manufactured in collaboration with Honda. ► mass-produce to make goods in very large quantities using special industrial processes: · Henry Ford made his fortune mass-producing the Model T.· The bike is the first mass-produced bicycle to have full front and rear suspension. ► churn out/turn out to make large quantities of things, especially without caring about quality: churn/turn out something: · They turn out cheap souvenirs for tourists.· Churning out pamphlets and booklets is ineffective if consumers cannot understand the messages.churn/turn something out: · As long as people keep buying these products, the company will keep turning them out. ► create to invent something new and original in art, music, fashion etc: · Picasso created a completely new style of painting.· She wanted to create a garden to complement her beautiful home.· This dish was created by master chef Marco Pierre White. ► fashion formal to make something using your hands or simple tools: · Two million years ago our ancestors began to fashion stone tools.fashion something from something: · The man had fashioned a turban from a strip of torn cloth. ► build to make something complicated, especially a building, machine, or vehicle, by putting parts together: · One of Jim's hobbies is building model airplanes.· John and his father built the cabin themselves.build something by hand (=build something without using machines): · Every single car is built by hand at the company's headquarters near Turin. ► construct to make something, especially something large, solid, and strong, by putting parts together: · It is easy to construct a wooden framework for plants to grow against.· Developers want to construct a replica of the 19th century steam yacht.construct something from something: · The roof frames were constructed from thick, heavy timbers. ► assemble to make something such as a machine or a piece of furniture by putting together parts that have been made somewhere else: · It's one of those beds that you have to assemble yourself.· Our kits are very easy to assemble.· The apprentices worked in the shed where the new locomotives were assembled and the old ones repaired. ► somebody's stomach churns (=they feel sick because they are nervous or frightened)· Her stomach was churning with anxiety. NOUN► stomach· Vultures the world over eat meat so rotten it makes one's stomach churn just thinking about it.· Miguel rolled a joint, but his stomach was churning, the air heavy with emotion.· Lunch-hour came and went, but with Merrill's stomach still churning she was in no mood to eat.· Still your stomach continues to churn and heave.· In his stomach there churned a disabling sense of his own vulnerability.· His stomach and heart churned with hunger.· Polly looked away, her stomach churning with a nausea that couldn't be blamed solely on hunger or seasickness.· Your stomach beings to churn with the action of the vasopressin. 1[intransitive] if your stomach churns, you feel sick because you are nervous or frightened: My stomach was churning on the day of the exam.2[intransitive, transitive] (also churn up) if water, mud etc churns, or if something churns it, it moves about violently: We watched the ocean churn.3[intransitive] if a machine, engine, wheel etc churns, it or its parts begin to move: I pressed the gas pedal, and slowly the wheels began to churn.4[transitive] to make milk by using a churnchurn something ↔ out phrasal verb to produce large quantities of something, especially without caring about quality: She’s been churning out novels for 20 years.churn somebody/something ↔up phrasal verb1 churn something ↔ up to damage the surface of the ground, especially by walking on it or driving a vehicle over it: The lawn had been churned up by the tractor.2 churn something ↔ up to move water, mud etc around violently: The oars had churned up the mud, clouding the water.3British English to make someone upset or angry: Though she looked calm, in reality she was churned up inside.churn1 verbchurn2 noun churnchurn2 noun churn2Origin: Old English cyrin - An ice cream churn on a plow was more or less all that a crop sprayer was in its earlier inception.
- I sat 60 foot under the stage, rooting my feet into the wooden earth, smelling the butter in the churn.
- The milk was turning in the churn, but the butter would not come.
► somebody's stomach churns (=they feel sick because they are nervous or frightened)· Her stomach was churning with anxiety. NOUN► milk· It was the hub of activity in milk delivery and milk churns were a feature of every station. 1[countable] a container used for shaking milk in order to make it into butter2 (also milk churn) [countable] British English a large metal container used to carry milk in3[uncountable] the number of people who stop buying or using a company’s products or services during a particular period |