What's the difference between churn and kern?

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.

Kern


Definition:

  • (n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.
  • (n.) Any kind of boor or low-lived person.
  • (n.) An idler; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank.
  • (v. t.) To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.
  • (n.) A churn.
  • (n.) A hand mill. See Quern.
  • (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening.
  • (v. i.) To take the form of kernels; to granulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Protein Mor has a C region sequence associated with Mcg-, Kern-, and Oz- proteins but differs from protein Sut by the presence of three amino acid interchanges at positions 168, 176, and 194.
  • (2) … In response to the shooting of Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes Everything happening now in Ukraine attests to the immediate need to disarm all militant groups, beginning with the Right Sector fighters, and to begin real, and not simulated, work of constitutional reform in the Ukrainian government and a search for international agreement.
  • (3) • An assassination attempt against Gennady Kernes, the wealthy mayor of Kharkiv, left him in "extremely serious but stable condition" in the hospital.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Gennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv.
  • (5) Kern wants the next government to ensure an accommodating monetary policy from the Bank of England, which is expected to keep interest rates at 0.5% when it announces its monthly decision tomorrow.
  • (6) C lambda 7 encodes Kern+ and Oz- determinants, but does not encode any of the Kern+Oz- myeloma proteins published to date.
  • (7) The constant part of the chain is Kern- and Oz- which indicates that it has serine in position 154 and arginine in position 191.
  • (8) 4.46pm GMT OBR forecast is more realistic, but still too ambitious - BCC David Kern , chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: The new fiscal forecasts are disappointing but not surprising, so it would be premature to assume that the UK will lose its AAA rating.
  • (9) Two species of ticks that are ectoparasitic on rodents in Kern County were evaluated as vectors of WEE virus.
  • (10) A satisfactory voltage clamp was achieved in the small S-A node specimen using the double microelectrode technique (Deck, Kern, and Trautwein, 1964).
  • (11) A simple model is used to explore the extent to which the uniquely comprehensive studies of western equine encephalomyelitis in Kern County, California, by Reeves and his colleagues over many years, explain the dynamics and epidemiology of the infection.
  • (12) "There is now greater hope that increases in inflation above the 3% mark will be avoided, but the situation remains uncertain and renewed surges in energy prices could push inflation up again," said David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
  • (13) David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Our manufacturing exporters are still overly focused on the weak eurozone, but low domestic demand has also limited progress."
  • (14) Steps must be taken to help businesses create jobs and wealth, and the planned national insurance rise must be scrapped," said David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce.
  • (15) Its chief economist, David Kern, said: With inflation set to remain low, these figures further strengthen the case for the MPC to keep interest rates on hold until at least 2016.” With the cost of living a key battleground in the run-up to May’s election, Osborne seized on the impact of lower inflation on families’ finances.
  • (16) As Kharkiv’s mayor, Kernes has straddled the pro-Kiev and pro-Russian camps in his city in a risky balancing act that already has nearly cost him his life .
  • (17) Three populations sampled from the Little Kern River basin tended to be genetically distinct from two additional Little Kern River basin populations and from three geographically distinct populations sampled from the eastern Kern River area.
  • (18) Commenting on the BCC’s latest survey, its chief economist David Kern, said: “Noticeable falls in all the export balances and increased signs of slower growth require a forceful policy response.
  • (19) David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce The upward revision to GDP in the second quarter is good news.
  • (20) David Kern, British Chambers of Commerce "These figures are stronger than earlier estimates and better than most analysts' expectations.