Chum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A friend; a pal.

   “He looked down upon the girl beside him—a daughter of the desert walking across the face of a dead world with a son of the jungle. He smiled at the thought. He wished that he had had a sister, and that she had been like this girl. What a bully chum she would have been!”

2. isim A roommate, especially in a college or university.

   “Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.”

3. fiil To share rooms with someone; to live together.

   “Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.”

4. fiil To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
5. fiil To make friends; to socialize.

   “I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.”

6. fiil To accompany.

   “I'll chum you down to the shops.”

7. isim A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.

   “Near-synonym: shark bait”

8. fiil To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

   “He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat.”

9. isim A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.

   “...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.”

10. isim Synonym of chum salmon.
11. isim A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
12. özel isim A surname.