Churn vs Provocative - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between churn and provocative

is that churn is a vessel used for churning while provocative is .

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

serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

(en verb)

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

Now the cream is churned to make butter.

* Addison

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.

(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

* '>citation

The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.

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

I was so nervous my stomach was churning .

* churn out

(en noun)

A vessel used for churning.

a butter churn

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

(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base .

* milk churn

(en adjective)

Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest.

(en noun)

* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :

She used by way of Provocative , to read the wanton Verses of her (Paramour) in the day time [...].

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