What is the difference between undesirable and churn?
undesirable | churn |
objectionable or not likely to please
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* 2008 , Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery (page 327)
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
* Addison
(figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
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To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
A vessel used for churning.
(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 .
As nouns the difference between undesirable and churn
is that undesirable is an undesirable person while churn is a vessel used for churning.As a adjective undesirable
is objectionable or not likely to please.As a verb churn is
to agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.undesirable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable .
- Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "undesirable" is often applied: effect, consequence, result, element, change, person, substance, characteristic, quality, feature, behavior, activity, thing, event, reaction, state.Antonyms
* desirablechurn
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now the cream is churned to make butter.
- Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
- The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
- I was so nervous my stomach was churning .
Derived terms
* churn outNoun
(en noun)- a butter churn