What's the difference between chummy and mates?

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.

Mates


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
  • (4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
  • (5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
  • (12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
  • (13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
  • (15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
  • (16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
  • (17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
  • (18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
  • (20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.

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