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Jam   /dʒæm/   Listen
Jam

noun
1.
Preserve of crushed fruit.
2.
Informal terms for a difficult situation.  Synonyms: fix, hole, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle.  "He made a muddle of his marriage"
3.
A dense crowd of people.  Synonyms: crush, press.
4.
Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems.  Synonyms: electronic jamming, jamming.
verb
(past & past part. jammed; pres. part. jamming)
1.
Press tightly together or cram.  Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng.
2.
Push down forcibly.
3.
Crush or bruise.  Synonym: crush.
4.
Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals.  Synonym: block.  "Block the signals emitted by this station"
5.
Get stuck and immobilized.
6.
Crowd or pack to capacity.  Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad.
7.
Block passage through.  Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude.



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"Jam" Quotes from Famous Books



... Miss Raleigh, "which can be laid away and which you can fill up with preserves or jam whenever you want a pie. How many of these ...
— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton
... tell the truth, I was obliged to knock over a few of your tall life-guards. They seem to think you're a good thing and need looking after, like jam in a cupboard." ...
— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum
... watermelon or cake or ice cream will not give you half so bad, nor so dangerous, colic as one little piece of tainted meat or fish or egg, or one cupful of dirty milk, or a single helping of cabbage or tomatoes that have begun to spoil, or of jam made out of spoiled berries or other fruit. This spoiling can be prevented by strict cleanliness in handling foods, especially milk, meat, and fruit; by keeping foods screened from dust and flies; and by keeping them cool with ice in summer time, thus checking the growth of these "spoiling" ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson
... "that it would be pleasanter here because of the jam at the club. That's why I proposed that you ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... imagined that.—Ver. 203-4. 'Et jam prensurum, jam, jam mea viscera rebar In sua mersurum.' Clarke thus renders these words; 'And now I thought he would presently whip me up, and cram my bowels within ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso


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