(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 ).
Confidant
Definition:
(n. fem.) Alt. of Confidante
Example Sentences:
(1) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(2) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(6) Jaczko's appearance was the second show of confidence in the nuclear industry since Sunday.
(7) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(8) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(9) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(10) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(11) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(12) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(13) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(14) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(15) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(16) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(19) By 1988, nearly one-half of the public expressed confidence in the future of the Social Security program.
(20) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.