Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
CHURN
churn, butter churn
(noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
churn
(verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
churn, boil, moil, roil
(verb) be agitated; āthe sea was churning in the stormā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)
(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
(intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
Noun
churn (countable and uncountable, plural churns)
A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
Anagrams
• runch
Source: Wiktionary
Churn, n. Etym: [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn, v. t.]
Definition: A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Churn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Churned; p. pr. & vb. n. Churning.] Etym: [OE. chernen, AS. cernan; akin to LG. karnen, G. kernen, D. karnen, Dan. kierne, Sw. kƤrna, and also to E. corn, kernel, the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See Kernel.]
1. To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
2. To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.
Churn, v. i.
Definition: To perform the operation of churning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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