What's the difference between chug and chum?

Chug


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Holliday chugs home, and the Sox are in some kind of trouble here, the kind that four base hits can bring early on in a World Series Game Three.
  • (2) Avoid the polluting chugging houseboats that cruise along the motorway-like larger canals and take a kayak for a tenth of the price through the smaller, unexplored waterways.
  • (3) Memorable examples include his drinking bout with Professor Henry Louis Gates' arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, or his chugging a few bottles while awkwardly bowling to pacify nervous, middle-class white voters in Pennsylvania during the primaries.
  • (4) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (5) One specific moment I was able to replicate multiple times on PS4 was a campaign scene that ran smoothly on Xbox 360 and PS3, while the game chugged On PlayStation 4.
  • (6) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (7) Three days after taking office, Bush proposed the No Child Left Behind education reform bill, which chugged steadily to passage about a year later.
  • (8) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (9) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
  • (10) We took the road train back from the stones to the visitor centre, and, as we chugged along, I asked an elderly American gentleman where he was from: "Virginia," he replied.
  • (11) Andre Brown is the one who chugs in for the one-yard score after New York’s drive was extended by a pass interference in the end zone.
  • (12) Switzer, who said many environmentalists are “watermelons” because they conceal “socialist agendas”, said Klein’s call to racially reshape capitalism is “a radical agenda, it’s bad politics because stands almost no chance of gaining widespread support, not just in Australia especially in developing countries chugging their smoking path to prosperity”.
  • (13) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
  • (14) It's surrounded by nice bourgeois houses; buses chug past; there's something about the look of it which is simply not sérieux.
  • (15) He believes western companies have been guilty of “industrialising the creative process”, introducing resource-intensive procedures that chug along to the tune of “more with more” but are no longer sustainable in a resource-constrained world.
  • (16) Guerrero was still chugging after his man but more hesitantly – and shipped another lovely right in centre ring as he paused between exchanges.
  • (17) Anyone who boards a "jeepney" (a US Army jeep, flamboyantly converted for public transportation) there gains insight into the culture of repurposing and improvisation that keeps the city chugging along, whichever natural, political, or infrastructural disasters may come.
  • (18) Saints 0-6 Seahawks, 0:37, 1st quarter Seattle extend their advantage, Lynch not quite engaging Beast Mode but ripping off a few nice short runs as his team chug their way from their own 35 up to the New Orleans 31, from where Hauschka converts a 49-yard kick.
  • (19) He chugs forward a little and then attempts to direct a 20-yard shot into the far corner.
  • (20) At a time when many of her contemporaries were chugging cocktails in Blighty, Agatha Christie was paddling out from beaches in Cape Town and Honolulu to earn her surfing stripes.

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 ).