What's the difference between churn and knead?

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.

Knead


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Tip the dough on to a clean work surface and knead well.
  • (2) Spray-dried and speed-kneaded powders, two types of granules and tablets were prepared with water-soluble gelatin.
  • (3) Keep kneading until the dough no longer sticks to the board.
  • (4) Lightly beat the eggs, combine with the flour and a pinch or two of salt, and knead for 5-10 minutes, depending how much you're making.
  • (5) The dissolution behavior of ibuprofen from a kneaded mixture with low-molecular gelatin (LM gelatin) has been studied in comparison to kneaded mixtures prepared with other additives.
  • (6) Turn out on to a floured surface and knead until smooth.
  • (7) Solid, undissolved particles in macrocorpuscular form, are "kneaded" into the mucosa during their passage through the digestive tract.
  • (8) Oral administrations of the kneaded mixture to beagle dogs showed the LM gelatin to be most effective in accelerating the absorption rate of ibuprofen among the additives used.
  • (9) 8.23pm BST Kim's kneading action is extremely energetic.
  • (10) The applied methods of preparation are well known industrial process as dry mixing (simple physical mixture), co-milling, kneading, coprecipitation, freeze drying, wet granulation methods.
  • (11) The industrial precooked rice flour imparted great adhesivity, thus difficulty in the kneading, a fact which could lead to rejection by the consumer.
  • (12) Continue kneading in no particular fashion for a full five minutes then put the dough into a floured bowl and set aside, covered with clingfilm or a clean tea towel, until it has risen to double its size.
  • (13) No differences in tissue reaction were recorded when the cement past was applied after normal and prolonged kneading.
  • (14) The amounts of EDB were reduced to 30 to 50% of the original amounts by kneading the dough, and to below 1.5% by baking.
  • (15) This result, coupled with the previous finding that a certain time is required to attain an equilibrium size granule, explains why there exists an optimum kneading time for a wet granulation from a mechanical performance point of view.
  • (16) The basic motor function of the colon is to mix and knead its contents, propel them slowly in the caudad direction, hold them in the distal colon until defecation, and provide a strong propulsive force during defecation.
  • (17) With prolonged kneading, a large amount of the water-soluble excipients dissolves in the granulating fluid, and these two factors make the drying slower.
  • (18) ‘Or,’ he continues, ‘I will press the baby to bring the head up.’ He firmly kneads the pregnant belly, slowly encouraging the foetus until: ‘Bingo.
  • (19) I think of him every time I look at the night sky - we must kneads (what?)
  • (20) The dissolution characteristics of furosemide are improved in tablets made from the kneaded product.