churn vs say

churn

noun
  • A milk churn. 

  • The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers. 

  • Cyclic activity that achieves nothing. 

  • A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. 

  • The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 

  • Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. 

verb
  • To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. 

  • To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. 

  • To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits. 

  • To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. 

  • To stop using a company's product or service. 

  • To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions. 

  • To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is. 

say

noun
  • A strainer for milk. 

  • Tried quality; temper; proof. 

  • A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. 

  • Essay; trial; attempt. 

  • Trial by sample; assay; specimen. 

adv
  • Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach. 

  • For example; let us assume. 

intj
  • Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion 

verb
  • Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis. 

  • To tell, either verbally or in writing. 

  • To indicate in a written form. 

  • To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact. 

  • To recite. 

  • To pronounce. 

  • To try; to assay. 

  • To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker. 

  • To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply. 

How often have the words churn and say occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )