(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 ).
Chummy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(2) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(3) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(4) Worth died last June, before she could see Call the Midwife become a massive Sunday-night ratings hit – its first episode outshone the much-hyped Sherlock to become BBC1's most-watched drama debut episode ever – with Chummy one of its most-loved characters.
(5) Besides which, Warren’s own biography strongly indicates she’s not keen to be an insider , anyway – as have her recent speeches taking the Obama administration to task for its chumminess with Wall Street types.
(6) And in the end, the only real remedy is to reduce the cost of running for parliament and therefore reduce the need for politicians to be so chummy with the people who give them lots of money.
(7) Lavrov and Kerry appeared chummy, exchanging whispers and slaps on the back, in marked contrast to the strained relationship the longtime Russian foreign minister maintained with the new secretary of state's predecessors.
(8) There were no chummy texts with any proprietor and no blizzard of emails, text and phone exchanges with Adam Smith who last week told the inquiry it was mere happenstance he was not in touch with the alliance — they had not contacted him.
(9) The appearance of a George Bush impressionist alongside the real thing at the White House correspondents' dinner this weekend was seen across the world, but the speech that followed - by Stephen Colbert, a colleague of the American satirist Jon Stewart - was a lot less chummy.
(10) Meanwhile, journalists – and remember that in the age of the web everyone online is a potential journalist – might concentrate on police abuses of power if they cannot get chummy with serving officers in the News of the World style.
(11) Earlier, the second episode of BBC1 six-part Call the Midwife, which saw the introduction of Miranda Hart's character Chummy Browne to the drama set in London's East End in the 1950s, averaged 8.6 million and 30.7% from 8pm.
(12) That was a nod to Wednesday’s chummy Liberal press conference down the road at the City of Armadale council offices, when Hastie stepped in to take an awkward question directed at Abbott about the future of his leadership.
(13) And it's not really advice – just a faux-chummy way of criticising.
(14) Why Schroders' reshuffle looks like a triumph of chumminess Read more The move contravenes recommendations in the corporate governance code, the regulatory framework that Schroders is more used to defending as a powerful investment institution.
(15) Its a tricky formula developed by Blair and now Cameron: the public profile is all amiability and chummy bloke-next-door, but their political success depends on very different characteristics of calculation, ruthlessness and impatience.
(16) "I flicked straight to Chummy's entrance in the book – well, you would, wouldn't you?
(17) "I didn't want him to get all chummy-chummy, all that bullshit.
(18) The first series ended with Hart's character, Chummy Brown, marrying PC Noakes, and one standout scene was when she overcame her self-doubt to deliver a breech birth.
(19) 8.01pm: Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsyvania) tries to get chummy, tells Toyoda that when he returns to Japan he'll be able to brag about withstanding a quizzing by Congress, considered a badge of courage in the US.
(20) Social realism is lightened by a certain silliness and, of course, by the award-winning performance from Hart as Chummy.