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Jam   /dʒæm/   Listen
noun
Jam  n.  A kind of frock for children.


Jam  n.  (Mining) See Jamb.


Jam  n.  
1.
A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.
2.
An injury caused by jamming. (Colloq.)
3.
A difficult situation; as, he got himself into a jam. (informal)


Jam  n.  A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; also called jelly; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
Jam nut. See Check nut, under Check.
Jam weld (Forging), a butt weld. See under Butt.


verb
Jam  v. t.  (past & past part. jammed; pres. part. jamming)  
1.
To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in; to cram; as, rock fans jammed the theater for the concert. "The ship... jammed in between two rocks."
2.
To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. (Colloq.)
3.
(Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
4.
To block or obstruct by packing too much (people or objects) into; as, shoppers jammed the aisles during the fire sale.
5.
(Radio) To interfere with (a radio signal) by sending other signals of the same or nearby frequency; as, the Soviets jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts for years during the cold war.
6.
To cause to become nonfunctional by putting something in that blocks the movement of a part or parts; as, he jammed the drawer by putting in too many loose papers; he jammed the lock by trying to pick it.


Jam  v. i.  
1.
To become stuck so as not to function; as, the copier jammed again.
2.
(Music) To play an instrument in a jam session.
3.
To crowd together; usually used with together or in; as, fifty people jammed into a conference room designed for twenty.





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"Jam" Quotes from Famous Books



... country's prosperity, who employs a number of hands in the manufacture of articles avowedly destitute of use, or subservient only to the unhallowed cravings of luxury and ostentation. The nobleman, who employs the peasants of his neighbourhood in building his palaces, until 'jam pauca aratro jugera regiae moles relinquunt,' flatters himself that he has gained the title of a patriot by yielding to the impulses of vanity. The show and pomp of courts adduce the same apology for its continuance; and many a fete has been given, many a woman has eclipsed her beauty by her ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... I, for I hate fine words for common use, they are like go-to-meeting' clothes on week days, onconvenient, and look too all fired jam up. Sais I, 'what's that when it's fried. I ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... take you anywhere for half a franc, are the favorite means of public conveyance, and the private turn-outs are of every description and degree. Indeed, all the Neapolitans take to carriages, and the Strand in London at six o'clock in the evening is not a greater jam of wheels than the Toledo in the afternoon. Shopping feels the expansive influence of the out-of-doors life, and ladies do most of it as they sit in their open carriages at the shop-doors, ministered to by ...
— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells
... his gun going until the heat of it warned him to stop and let the barrel cool, or he knew he would jam some of the mechanism. The other guns were firing, too, and the bullets sent up little spatter points of dust as ...
— Tom Swift and his War Tank - or, Doing his Bit for Uncle Sam • Victor Appleton
... Gar'ner," answered Daggett. "There's our road before us. Go through it we must, or stay where we are until that field-ice gives us a jam down yonder in the crescent. I will lead, and you can follow as soon ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper


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