(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 ).
Sidekick
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Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(2) Peter Mayhew, who played Han Solo's wookiee sidekick Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, stood at an impressive 7 ft 2" and also had what might be described as broad facial features.
(3) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
(4) Washington always throws its weight around with willing sidekicks like Australia, but the convention is to do it in private, not thunder unpredictably in public about what you might or might not do, and issue contradictory statements about bilateral agreements agreed between leaders.
(5) This Week host Andrew Neil predicted 12 million for the leaders' debate, while regular sofa sidekick Michael Portillo plumped for 6 million – so that one goes to Neil, narrowly.
(6) By choosing the comedian Reggie Watts as his band leader and sidekick, he’s got the comedic force of one of standup’s great surrealists to play off – he sometimes hands over entire sketches to Watts, whose prominent inclusion in the opening credits almost implies that the show is a two-hander.
(7) The supreme leader wants a subservient and disciplined sidekick but he also needs a president to solve some very delicate problems.
(8) "It's one thing to give the faithful sidekick top billing, when that sidekick is played by Johnny Depp, but the film feels constantly torn between deconstructing the legend and presenting it in a straightforward manner.
(9) Mayhew, 69, signalled his intention to play Han Solo's furry wookie sidekick once again in September.
(10) The third instalment of the BBC1 series, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as sidekick Watson, attracted an average of 7.9 million viewers in the 9pm slot on Sunday 15 January.
(11) Arthur had a hapless sidekick, Chester Drawers, who he’d humiliate roundly in front of an audience, then come off stage and double down on by hissing something like: “I’ve seen a monkey take a pie better than that!” Will May’s government soon be forced to undergo an emergency Borisectomy?
(12) Well, thanks to Clayton Kershaw and his ridiculously low 1.83 ERA, along with his sidekick Zack Grienke, not to mention Hyun-jin Ryu, Ricky Nolasco and closer-with-cutter Kenley Jansen, no, not really - even if the offense is making headlines now, LA are still very much about the pitching, which is likely enough to get them to the NLCS.
(13) Gove by contrast seemed happier acting as a sidekick to certain cabinet colleagues, acting as a briefer in spin rooms for David Cameron.
(14) The film adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou as Professor Robert Langdon and his sidekick Sophie Neveu, will be released in the UK on May 19.
(15) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
(16) She posts songs, vlogs and comedy skits with her Scottish sidekick, the Unnecessary Otter.
(17) Trumpeter Don Cherry, a long-time Coleman sidekick (and subsequently father of singers Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry) shares the soloing with the empathy the two were to pursue for years.
(18) What this means now, is that Paul and I can be married,” Letterman joked, referring to his longtime bandleader and sidekick Paul Shaffer.
(19) The first episode of the third series is its funniest to date, making light of Holmes' much-discussed return from the dead and his relationship with sidekick, Watson.
(20) In 2012 they picked Dion Waiters with the fourth pick, hoping he could be Kyrie's sidekick.