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Meaning of 'jam' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Jam [ n.]
- A kind of frock for children.
- See Jamb.
- 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.
- An injury caused by jamming.
- A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
2 . Jam [ v. t.]
- To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.
- To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.
- To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Meaning of 'jam' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . jam [ n]
Meaning (1):
- informal terms for a difficult situation
Example in sentence:
  • he got into a terrible fix;
  • he made a muddle of his marriage
2 . jam [ v]
Meaning (2):
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
Example in sentence:
  • block the signals emitted by this station;
  • Jam the Voice of America
Meaning (3):
- crush or bruise
Example in sentence:
  • jam a toe
Meaning (4):
- block passage through
Example in sentence:
  • obstruct the path
Meaning (5):
- press tightly together or cram
Example in sentence:
  • The crowd packed the auditorium
Meaning (6):
- push down forcibly
Example in sentence:
  • The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor
Meaning (7):
- get stuck and immobilized
Example in sentence:
  • the mechanism jammed
Meaning (8):
- crowd or pack to capacity
Example in sentence:
  • the theater was jampacked

Nearby Words:

jamacina jamadar jamaica jamaican jamaicine jamb jambee jambes jambeux jambolana

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