ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CHUM
(Meaning: a person sharing rooms with another): probably shortened from chamber fellow, originally student slang (Oxford); compare crony.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CHUM
PRESENT
Present
I chum
you chum
he/she/it chums
we chum
you chum
they chum
Present continuous
I am chumming
you are chumming
he/she/it is chumming
we are chumming
you are chumming
they are chumming
Present perfect
I have chummed
you have chummed
he/she/it has chummed
we have chummed
you have chummed
they have chummed
Present perfect continuous
I have been chumming
you have been chumming
he/she/it has been chumming
we have been chumming
you have been chumming
they have been chumming
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I chummed
you chummed
he/she/it chummed
we chummed
you chummed
they chummed
Past continuous
I was chumming
you were chumming
he/she/it was chumming
we were chumming
you were chumming
they were chumming
Past perfect
I had chummed
you had chummed
he/she/it had chummed
we had chummed
you had chummed
they had chummed
Past perfect continuous
I had been chumming
you had been chumming
he/she/it had been chumming
we had been chumming
you had been chumming
they had been chumming
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will chum
you will chum
he/she/it will chum
we will chum
you will chum
they will chum
Future continuous
I will be chumming
you will be chumming
he/she/it will be chumming
we will be chumming
you will be chumming
they will be chumming
Future perfect
I will have chummed
you will have chummed
he/she/it will have chummed
we will have chummed
you will have chummed
they will have chummed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been chumming
you will have been chumming
he/she/it will have been chumming
we will have been chumming
you will have been chumming
they will have been chumming
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would chum
you would chum
he/she/it would chum
we would chum
you would chum
they would chum
Conditional continuous
I would be chumming
you would be chumming
he/she/it would be chumming
we would be chumming
you would be chumming
they would be chumming
Conditional perfect
I would have chum
you would have chum
he/she/it would have chum
we would have chum
you would have chum
they would have chum
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been chumming
you would have been chumming
he/she/it would have been chumming
we would have been chumming
you would have been chumming
they would have been chumming
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you chum
we let´s chum
you chum
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
chumming
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHUM»
The term «chum» is quite widely used and occupies the
31.519 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
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5 QUOTES WITH «CHUM»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
chum.
All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.
I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHUM»
Discover the use of
chum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Chum is a sex-obsessed, scatological, violent, disturbed, grim, funny, & horric allegory of desperate fishermen & cannery workers, set on an island off the coast of Alaska.
2
Past lives of the Buddha: Wat Si
Chum--art, architecture and ...
Wat Si Chum is unique among Sukhothai temples.
Peter Skilling, Pattaratorn Chirapravati (M.L.), 2008
3
A Guide to T'
chum Shabbos Includes Halacha and Practical ...
T!HE T'chuM ShAbbos (30) row Dinn 2) when the path (or road) leading to his
house leaves the square of the T'chum boundary. Point to remember: No two T'
chumin are equal. The T'chum Shabbos is measured from the boundary of a city;
...
4
Trout and Salmon of North America
Chum salmon begin to rapidly deteriorate, both internally and externally, as
spawning time nears. These changes begin while the salmon are still in marine
waters and as they congregate to enter fresh water and accelerate rapidly
thereafter.
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The Little Colonel's
Chum: Mary Ware
THE. LITTLE. COLONEL'S. CHUM: MARY WARE CHAPTER I MARY ENTERS
WARWICK HALL The bus running between Warwick Hall Station and Warwick
Hall school drew up at the door of the great castlelike building with as grand a ...
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston, 2012
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Got Any Gum
Chum?: Gis in Wartime Britain 1942-1945
Reprint. Originally published: Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2001.
SCRAPS & CHUM: Short Stories By Ryan C. Thomas Copyright 2012 by Grand
Mal Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of
this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written ...
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Development of Autumn
Chum Salmon in the Amur River
1953 DEVELOPMENT OF AUTUMN CHUM SALMON IN THE AMUR RIVER (
Razvitie osennei kety reki Amura) N. N. Disler Candidate of Biological Sciences (
Institute of Animal Morphology im. A. N. Severtsov of the Academy of Sciences, ...
Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Disler, 1963
Tracy Kompelien. The Thumb and His Chum There once was a giant thumb. He
came from a. 14.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Charles Bullard Fairbanks, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHUM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
chum is used in the context of the following news items.
Jacques Turgeon quits the CHUM for good
More turmoil at the CHUM this summer as the French-language university health complex finds itself without an executive director once again, ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
State closes sport fishing for Kuskokwim chum amid low returns
BETHEL – One of the worst returns of chum salmon on record has prompted the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to shut down sport ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 15»
New support for the capital campaign Giving Ourselves the Best in …
MONTREAL, July 7, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - The Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and its foundation have found new partners within the ... «Canada NewsWire, Jul 15»
Serena Williams v Victoria Azarenka: Wimbledon 2015 – as it …
Williams needs 75 seconds to move one game away from a meeting with her old chum, Maria Sharapova. Facebook Twitter Google plus. Share. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Young woman 'plunges 40ft to her death after selfie attempt goes …
... had just graduated with a degree in tourism - was travelling on a bus the group had hired to celebrate the birthday of a 19-year-old chum. «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»
MUSIC VIDEO: Brother & Bones filmed new Raining Stone promo at …
... his early career playing solo shows in pubs around Cornwall, before heading off to London with percussionist chum Robin Howell-Sprent. «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»
Harry Lime Gets a Second Life in the Restored Version of 'The Third …
A scribbler of pulp westerns with a weakness for alcohol and pretty girls, he has been offered a job by his old school chum Harry, but at Harry's ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Swimming with sharks: Courting danger or awareness?
... "National Geographic" disavowed the practice of caged diving to view sharks because too often bloody chum is used to attract the creatures. «Florida Today, Jul 15»
Chum run estimate tops 1 million
FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates the total passage of Yukon river chum salmon through the Pilot Station ... «Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Jul 15»
Japan's Hokkaido chum return expected to jump 15%
Japan's Hokkaido chum return could be as large as 40.3 million fish for the upcoming season, 15 percent greater than the previous year, ... «IntraFish.com, Jul 15»
