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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



... passes, bearing on a board beneath an incorrectly drawn Union Jack an exhortation to the true patriot to "Buy Bumper's British-Boiled Jam." ... ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... for a great many uses, you know; it isn't just to eat them. Mother makes jam and wine for the whole year, besides what we eat at once. And we go for the fun too, as ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... enjoyed a brief but rather hectic companionate-marriage with her, about twenty years ago. What sort of a jam's little Dalla ...
— Last Enemy • Henry Beam Piper
... The Zulu driftingly arrived before us; whereupon we attempted to give him his purchases—but he winked and told us wordlessly that we should (if we would be so kind) keep them for him, immediately following this suggestion by a request that we open the marmalade or jam or whatever it might be called—preserve is perhaps the best word. We complied with alacrity. Now (he said soundlessly), you may if you like offer me a little. We did. Now have some yourselves, The Zulu commanded. So we attacked the confiture with a will, spreading it on pieces or, rather, ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... imbriferum ver: Spicea jam campis cum messis inhorruit, et cum Frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent. Cuncta tibi Cererem ...
— The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas • Henry Kirke White


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