What's the difference between cham and chum?

Cham


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To chew.
  • (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ronny Cham, who represented Miss Hawkins in court, said she was relieved to be returning home.
  • (2) A distinct pool of liver ferritin has been described in man, guinea pigs and rats [Cham, Roeser, Nikles & Ridgway (1986) Clin.
  • (3) Walking the circular viewing deck, visitors start with horrific scenes from the Cham War between the Khmers and the Vietnamese before moving on to the construction of the famous Bayon Temple and ending with the daily life of Khmers.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Defence lawyer Ronny Cham Cham pleaded for leniency: “Your honour, they were ignorant of the culture, tradition and belief of the local people … including the people of Sabah and Malaysia … This is a group of a young generation … who have more freedom and liberty to express their thoughts and ideas.” Cham said the four stripped as they were “challenging one another to stand the cold of the mountain, to stand the temperature, which was near zero degrees”.
  • (5) Kolo Cham grows sorghum and corn near the Baro river, a 30-minute walk from his family home at Karmi.
  • (6) Sheikh Tayeb Mustapha Cham, imam and founder of the Taiba Welfare Foundation, said some imams still resisted condemning FGM, but religious leaders had a responsibly to speak out.
  • (7) Pharmacological activities of Eschscholtzia californica Cham.
  • (8) "Nobody would believe that such a luxury car would come to Cambodia," said the minister for industry and handcrafts, Cham Prasidh, who was present for the announcement.
  • (9) A technique described by Cham and Knowles allows the extraction of plasma phospholipides, triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids without denaturing the proteins.
  • (10) Hawkins’s defence lawyer, Ronny Cham, said: “This is a happy ending to the whole episode.” He said he expected all four tourists to be deported after they had paid the fines.

Chum


Definition:

  • (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
  • (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college.
  • (n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
  • (2) Chum salmon (oncorhynchus keta) stanniocalcin was purified, partially identified and tested for bioactivity in an assay on the intestinal calcium uptake in a marine teleost (Gadus morhua).
  • (3) The absence of an effect of PRLs in chum salmon fry seems to be due, at least in part, to their good osmoregulatory ability during the period of seaward migration; effects of the exogenously administered PRLs may be compensated for by other hormones responsible for their hydromineral balance.
  • (4) Chum GH has an estimated molecular weight of 23,500 and an amino acid composition that is consistent with a vertebrate GH.
  • (5) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
  • (6) Effects of intraperitoneal injections of chum salmon gonadotrophin (SGA) and various steroid hormones (17 alpha, 20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one; 17 alpha,20 beta-diOHprog, 17 alpha-hydroxy-progesterone, testosterone, 11-ketotestosterone) on the induction of in vivo spermiation were examined in nonspermiating amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus) and goldfish (Carassius auratus).
  • (7) Catfish GH and PRL were identified by Western blotting with antisera against chum salmon GH and PRL.
  • (8) Antiserum against Atlantic salmon prolactin cross-reacted with chum salmon prolactin, but not with human, rat, or sheep prolactin.
  • (9) The primary structure of chum and pink salmon insulins was found to be identical.
  • (10) A TV chum with good Labour contacts assured me the other day that shadow cabinet elections are always fixed.
  • (11) In order to examine the role of thyroid hormones during salmonid development, techniques were developed for quantitative extraction of thyroxine from eggs, whole embryos, and alevins of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) at various stages of development.
  • (12) We do hope there will be no awkwardness over the fact that the owner of the property, millionaire banker Edmund Lazarus, is an old chum of Michael Gove and has given £95,000 to the Conservative party in the last two years.
  • (13) Prime ministerial approval of appointments may be more problematic than ever in a Gove-Rupert world of business and media chums.
  • (14) Neither the GTH I-producing nor the GTH II-producing cells stained with antisera against chum salmon growth hormone or the beta subunit of human thyroid-stimulating hormone.
  • (15) The bacterial flora in the digestive tract of chum salmon growing in fresh water under defined and controlled culture conditions was examined both qualitatively and quantitatively.
  • (16) The PRLs purified from chinook salmon and chum salmon (O. keta) pituitaries showed exactly the same competitive inhibition curves in the RIA, regardless of iodination of either hormone.
  • (17) Tuna GH showed amino-acid sequence homologies with chum salmon (67%), yellow tail (90%) and with human (32%) growth hormones.
  • (18) This report describes the isolation of growth hormone (GH) from the chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) pituitary using gel, affinity, and ion exchange chromatography.
  • (19) Particular attention was paid to the role of cAMP in the shift in the steroidogenic responses of follicle layers to gonadotropin (partially purified chum salmon gonadotropin, SGA) during oogenesis.
  • (20) Almost the only people consistently welcomed aboard the various panels and committees enchartered here are our old chums the lawyers (as in retired judges, barristers et al ).