Dictionary entry details
• JAM (noun)
Meaning:
Preserve of crushed fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("jam" is a kind of...):
conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves (fruit preserved by cooking with sugar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jam"):
strawberry jam; strawberry preserves (made with strawberries)
Meaning:
Informal terms for a difficult situation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
kettle of fish; fix; jam; mess; muddle; pickle; hole
Context examples:
he got into a terrible fix / he made a muddle of his marriage
Hypernyms ("jam" is a kind of...):
difficulty (a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jam"):
dog's breakfast; dog's dinner (a poor job; a mess)
Meaning:
A dense crowd of people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
crush; jam; press
Hypernyms ("jam" is a kind of...):
crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jam"):
snarl-up; traffic jam (a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move)
Meaning:
Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
electronic jamming; jamming; jam
Hypernyms ("jam" is a kind of...):
ECM; electronic countermeasures (electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jam"):
barrage jamming (electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously)
selective jamming; spot jamming (electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency)
• JAM (verb)
Meaning:
Press tightly together or cram
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
jam; mob; throng; pile; pack
Context example:
The crowd packed the auditorium
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
crowd; crowd together (to gather together in large numbers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Push down forcibly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
force; push (move with force,)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Crush or bruise
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
jam; crush
Context example:
jam a toe
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he jam his foot?
Meaning:
Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
jam; block
Context examples:
Jam the Voice of America / block the signals emitted by this station
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jam"):
blanket jam (jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications)
spot jam (jam a single frequency)
point jam (jam a narrow band of frequencies)
barrage jam (jam an entire frequency spectrum)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Get stuck and immobilized
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
the mechanism jammed
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sentence example:
They want to jam the doors
Meaning:
Crowd or pack to capacity
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
chock up; cram; jampack; wad; ram; jam
Context example:
the theater was jampacked
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
stuff (fill completely)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
Sentence example:
They jam the books into the box
Meaning:
Block passage through
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
occlude; obturate; close up; impede; obstruct; jam; block
Context example:
obstruct the path
Hypernyms (to "jam" is one way to...):
hinder; impede (be a hindrance or obstacle to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jam"):
bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop (render unsuitable for passage)
earth up; land up (block with earth, as after a landslide)
block out; screen (prevent from entering)
dam; dam up (obstruct with, or as if with, a dam)
tie up (restrain from moving or operating normally)
asphyxiate; choke; stifle; suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)
barricade (prevent access to by barricading)
barricade; barricado (block off with barricades)
block off; blockade (obstruct access to)
back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
