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Definition: CHURNED |
CHURNEDImperative & past participle1. Of Churn |
Date "CHURNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: CHURNED |
| English words defined with "CHURNED": grotesque ♦ monstrous ♦ unnatural. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The second mouse fought until he churned the cream into butter and walked out Amen. (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Churned Waters (1899) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Play | Caption |
 | Lottery balls being churned in the bin. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Industrial robots have been used on the production line at Japanese automobile manufacturers since the late 1970s. In fact, the export-led expansion of the Japanese automobile industry in those days depended on Japan's development of superior production systems that churned out high quality products with great efficiency. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CHURNED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "CHURNED" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 54.17% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 34.17% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 120 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CHURNED": churned-up. | |
Ending with "CHURNED": freshly-churned, hand-churned, home-churned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
churned | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHURNED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 搅动 (Churn, churned-up, Churning, slosh, sloshed, stir, stirred, stirring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | barattage des viandes (churned-meat treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | butterte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | "κτύπημα" κρέατος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 휘 "" (Whipped, Whipt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seiyt (agitated, mixed, muddy, stirred, troubled, troubled of water), mestit (confused, confusing, cross-bred, garbled, jumbled, mashed, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, stirred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urnedchay tratamento da carne (churned-meat treatment). (various references) revuelto (fumbling, higgledy-piggledy, scrambled, troubled, turned, unruly). (various references) tumling (churned-meat treatment), massering (churned-meat treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CHURNED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Charnd, cherne, chevroned, Churney, Cunred, schrund. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHURNED" (pronounced kher"nd) |
| 3 | -er" n d | adjourned, burned, concerned, discerned, earned, learned, returned, spurned, turned, unburned, unconcerned, unearned, unturned, yearned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: drench, ruched. | |
-2 letters: churn, crude, cured, dunce, dunch, nuder, ruche, under. | |
-3 letters: crud, cued, curd, cure, curn, duce, dune, dure, durn, ecru, herd, hern, hued, nerd, nude, nurd, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde. | |
-4 letters: cud, cue, cur, den, due, duh, dun, ecu, edh, end, ern, hen, her, hue, hun, rec, red, rue, run, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: brunched, crunched. | |
+2 letters: chondrule, chuntered, craunched, scrunched, uncharged, uncharted, unreached. | |
+3 letters: chondrules, prepunched, relaunched, unanchored, unbranched, unbreeched, unchurched, unenriched. | |
+4 letters: thunderclap, truncheoned, unchartered, undercharge, unretouched. | |
+5 letters: churchwarden, rescheduling, thunderclaps, thundercloud, unchaperoned, unchristened, unchronicled, undeciphered, underachieve, undercharged, undercharges, underclothes, undischarged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 48 55 52 4E 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .... ..- .-. -. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001000 01010101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H U R N E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0055 0052 004E 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37425552483938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chino, kinesisk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, griego, grek |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano, koreansk |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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