What's the difference between chur and churn?

Chur


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) chuR was not autoregulated, nor was its expression affected by a mutation (46-4) that eliminated the expression of all chondroitin sulfate utilization genes but did not affect the utilization of heparin.
  • (2) 18 patients with humeral shaft fractures underwent open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) using the AO plating technique at the Kantonsspital Chur from 1980 to 1986.
  • (3) The physician Johann Ulrich Bilguer (1720-1796) born in Chur in Graubünden obtained high posts in military medicine in Prussian services.
  • (4) The gemsbok were chased on the interdune plains and darted from a Land Rover with the Palmer powder-charge Cap-Chur gun.
  • (5) Between 1980 and 1986, 30 wrists in 29 patients with intra-articular fractures of the distal radius were stabilized with a buttress plate an the Kantonsspital Chur, Switzerland.
  • (6) Our restrospective study concerns 30 patients from the region of Chur, Switzerland, injured between 1965 and 1976.
  • (7) Transcriptional fusion studies showed that the expression of chuR occurred at the same level under inducing and noninducing conditions, in contrast to the regulated expression of structural genes of the chondroitin sulfate utilization system.
  • (8) The gene encoding ORF1 has been designated chuR, for regulation of chondroitin sulfate and heparin utilization.
  • (9) In the operative treatment of 93 lower leg and ankle fractures at the Kreuzspital Chur cancellous bone from the head of the tibia of the same leg was used to brigde bone defects.

Churn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
  • (v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
  • (v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.
  • (v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (2) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
  • (3) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
  • (4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (5) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
  • (6) Dozens of wet-suited arms arc rhythmically above the water like small sea serpents, churning the lake as they go.
  • (7) The appeal of making the payment universal must be weighed against the “churning” costs of collecting and returning it.
  • (8) Over the weekend, forecasters fed the dispersion model with data on the amount of ash being churned out by the volcano.
  • (9) And the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations," he said.
  • (10) But if we've learned anything from 50 years of relationship churn, it's that somebody in the family has to behave like a grown-up and, until we behave better, that, sadly, is often the child.
  • (11) This is the result of globalisation, a mobility and churn in the world's population which involves Britain no more or less than the likes of France, Germany or the Netherlands.
  • (12) Newsnight did well to keep churning through August (when Paxman and co used to take a rest).
  • (13) Over the past 60 years, the pharmaceutical industry has churned out three generations of antibiotics.
  • (14) Winning tip: Hackfall Wood, North Yorkshire Hackfall Wood is deep in a ravine with a churning river at the bottom.
  • (15) Attempts were made to obtain fats from the following types of dry milk: Dry milk for children, Dry milk of full fat value, Biolakton, Vitalakt, and Bébé 1, employing methods of extraction making use of chloroform-methanol, mechanical churning, freezing of restored milk, as well as combinations of these.
  • (16) It is stomach-churning to think there are Hong Kong police officers that feel they are above the law,” Mabel Au, the director of Amnesty Hong Kong, said in a statement.
  • (17) If there is consumer demand, the company will keep on churning out products and expanding.
  • (18) This delivered a hit with Paper Plane, a track exhibiting the classic Quo trademarks of churning guitars, super-simple lyrics and a 12-bar structure (doubled to 24 bars in this case).
  • (19) The revolutionary volunteers have churned out caricatures of Gaddafi being throttled until money pops from his throat, and of him naked and alone on a desert island with a slogan that says he is with the only friend he has in the world.
  • (20) He said on Monday that at the age of 50 he is better able to manage his emotions and ready to commit himself to building a dynasty at a club who have churned through 10 managers in a decade since Abramovich bought the club in 2003.

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