(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.
Whisk
Definition:
(n.) A game at cards; whist.
(n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
(n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
(n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
(n.) A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
(n.) An impertinent fellow.
(n.) A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
(n.) To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.
(n.) To move with a quick, sweeping motion.
(v. i.) To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
(2) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.
(3) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(4) If a contractor was involved in an incident which caused a fuss, they were whisked out of the country by their company.
(5) Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and yolks with the cornflour.
(6) "Mladic was handcuffed and whisked away," the officer said.
(7) He would not have approved of the letter the law firm sent, or the suggestion his home – the end result of a lifetime of hard work – should be whisked away from his loved ones.
(8) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(9) James Franco plays a small-town teacher who walks through a temporal portal in the back of a diner that whisks him from the present day and deposits him in the early-60s, where he makes it his mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald pulling the trigger.
(10) For the custard 4 egg yolks 400ml double cream 60g caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tsp vanilla essence (or ½ vanilla pod, split) 1 Whisk the egg yolks for a minute in a largish heat-proof bowl (you need to be able to whisk the hot cream in later without worrying about it spilling over.)
(11) nasolabialis superficialis and buccinator pars orbicularis oris help to spread the vibrissae into a dorsoventral fan and stabilize the mystacial pad during whisking.
(12) Place the egg whites in a clean bowl and whisk until soft peaks form.
(13) Madonna also expressed joy at finally having the boy at her home, after he was whisked through Heathrow and past a media scrum on a Marylebone pavement to a new life of celebrity infancy at her London mansion.
(14) The pair, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, are due to land at Edinburgh airport on Sunday afternoon on board a special FedEx flight from Sichuan province in China before being whisked to a redesigned enclosure in the zoo, complete with pool, cave and bulletproof glass.
(15) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
(16) Add the butter and beetroot puree and whisk until well combined.
(17) 3 An electric whisk or stand mixer is always going to make meringue-making easier.
(18) Soak the gelatine sheet in a little water, gently squeeze out the excess water then whisk into the hot stock.
(19) Without encountering another soul, our hero strides into an anonymous lobby and is whisked up to a vast, sparkling eyrie, worthy of a Bond villain’s hideout.
(20) For the dressing 1 tbsp cider or white-wine vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil Flaky sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the salad A couple of handfuls rocket leaves 80g semi-soft blue cheese 6 dates, pitted and sliced 50g hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped Whisk together the vinegar and oil until you have a creamy emulsion, then pour a tablespoon into the bottom of a bowl.