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cume

See also: cumé, cumè, and cümə

English

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Etymology

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From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Verb

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cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

  1. (film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.

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Particularly in past or perfect forms, as “cumed” or “has cumed”, since “cumulative box office receipts” is primarily a backwards-looking concept.

Noun

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cume (plural cumes)

  1. (film) Cumulative box office receipts.
    • 2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014:
      With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.
    • 2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie‎[1]:
      Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.
  2. (radio, television) Cumulative audience.
    • 2004, Steve Warren, Radio:
      Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.
    • 2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
      If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.
  3. (education) Cumulative grade point average.
    • 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:
      The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
      And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.

Adjective

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cume (not comparable)

  1. (film) Cumulative.
    • 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
      Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...
    • 2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:
      Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.

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Asturian

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Noun

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cume m (plural cumes)

  1. summit

Galician

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Cume da Moa, O Pindo, Carnota, Galicia

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Etymology

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15th century. From Latin culmen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Cognate with Portuguese cume and Spanish cumbre.

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Noun

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cume m (plural cumes)

  1. mountain top, summit
    Synonym: cumio
  2. ridge, roof top
    • 1433, Rodríguez González, Ángel / José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 63:
      a qual casa se ten por parede con outra casa de Juan Peres, notario da dita villa, de hũa parte, da outra parta se ten por cume et tavoado con outra mia casa
      the aforementioned house is next to the wall of another one that belongs to Juan Perez, notary of this town, in one side, and in the other is touching, by the ridge and the wooden wall, with another house of my property
    Synonyms: cima, cumio
  3. ridge board
    • 1457, Tato Plaza, Fernando R. (ed.) (1999): Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua)., page 185:
      Jtem diso máis que leuara de dentro da grãja de Saar, estando presente Martj́n de Dorrõ, hũu cume de castaño de des cóuodos, pouco máis o menos
      Item, he said more, that he had taken from the inside of the farm of Sar, in the presence of Martín de Dorrón, a chestnut ridge board, of some ten cubits long, give or take
    Synonyms: crucel, cumio
  4. top position
    Synonyms: cima, cúspide
  5. summit (gathering of leathers, etc)
    Synonym: cumio

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *quomo (from Latin quomōdo) + et. Compare Italian come, French comme, Romanian cum.

Adverb

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cume

  1. how
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *kūmo, from Proto-Germanic *kūmô.

Adverb

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cume

  1. barely, only just
  2. almost, nearly

Descendants

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  • Dutch: kuim
  • Limburgish: koem, koum (from German?)

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Old English

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Verb

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cume

  1. inflection of cuman:
    1. subjunctive present singular
    2. imperative singular

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Conjunction

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cume

  1. Alternative form of conme

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin culmen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.

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  • Hyphenation: cu‧me

Noun

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cume m (plural cumes)

  1. peak, the highest point of a mountain
    Synonyms: cimo, sumo, pico

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