Definitions of jam [ʒæm]

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Definition of 'jam'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) jam
to press or squeeze into a confined space:
to jam socks into a drawer.

2.  jam
to bruise or crush by squeezing:
to jam one's hand in a door.

3.  jam
to fill tightly.

4.  jam
to push or thrust violently on or against something:
Jam your foot on the brake.

5.  jam
to block up by crowding:
Crowds jammed the doors.

6.  jam
to put or place in position with a violent gesture (often fol. by on):
He jammed on his hat.

7.  jam
to make (something) unworkable by causing parts to become stuck, displaced, etc.:
to jam a lock.

8.  jam
to interfere with (radio signals or the like) by sending out other signals of approximately the same frequency.

9.  jam
(of radio signals or the like) to interfere with (other signals).

10. (v.i.) jam
to become stuck, wedged, blocked, etc.:
This door jams easily.

11.  jam
to press or push, often violently, as into a confined space:
They jammed into the elevator.

12.  jam
(of a machine, part, etc.) to become unworkable, as through the wedging or displacement of a part.

13.  jam
to participate in a jam session.

14. (n.) jam
the act of jamming or the state of being jammed.

15.  jam
a mass of objects, vehicles, etc., crammed together in such a way as to severely impede movement:
a traffic jam.

16.  jam
Informal. a difficult or embarrassing situation; predicament; fix:
Their lying got them into a jam.

17. (n.) jam
a preserve of slightly crushed fruit boiled with sugar.

Etymology: (1720–30; perh. identical with jam¹)

Definition of 'jam'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) jam
preserve of crushed fruit

2. (noun) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

3. (noun) crush, jam, press
a dense crowd of people

4. (verb) jamming, electronic jamming, jam
deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

5. (verb) throng, mob, pack, pile, jam
press tightly together or cram
"The crowd packed the auditorium"

6. (verb) jam
push down forcibly
"The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"

7. (verb) jam, crush
crush or bruise
"jam a toe"

8. (verb) jam, block
interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
"Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"

9. (verb) jam
get stuck and immobilized
"the mechanism jammed"

10. (verb) jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"

11. (verb) obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
block passage through
"obstruct the path"

Definition of 'jam'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) jam
a sweet food made from fruit and sugar, often spread on bread
toast and jam

2.  jam
when the flow of sth is stopped, because sth is stuck
a paper jam in the printer; a traffic jam

3.  jam
a situation that causes trouble
friends who help you out when you are in a jam

4. (verb) jam
to block or become blocked and unable to flow
People were jamming the streets outside.; The printer is jammed again.

5.  jam
to push sth into sth else forcefully
He jammed his hands into his pockets.

6.  jam
to block the transmission of a signal
to jam a radio signal

Definition of 'jam'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) jam
a kind of frock for children

2. (noun) jam
see Jamb

3. (noun) jam
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

4. (noun) jam
an injury caused by jamming

5. (noun) jam
a preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam

6. (verb) jam
to press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in

7. (verb) jam
to crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door

8. (verb) jam
to bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback

Translation of 'jam'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a thick sticky substance made of fruit etc preserved by being boiled with sugar raspberry jam; (
Afrikaans: konfyt	Arabic: مُرَبّى الفاكِهَه	Bulgarian: конфитюр
Brazilian: geleia	Czech: džem; s džemem	German: die Marmelade, Marmeladen
Danish: marmelade; -marmelade; ma	Greek: μαρμελάδα	Spanish: mermelada, confitura
Estonian: moos	Farsi: مربا	Finnish: hillo
French: confiture	Hebrew: רִיבָּה	Hindi: मुरब्बा, जाम
Croatian: džem	Hungarian: lekvár, dzsem	Indonesian: selai
Icelandic: sulta	Italian: marmellata	Japanese: ジャム
Korean: 잼	Lithuanian: džemas	Latvian: ievārījums; ievārījuma-
Malay: jem	Dutch: jam	Norwegian: syltetøy, marmelade
Polish: konfitura, dżem	Persian: مربا	Pashto: مربا
Portuguese: geleia	Romanian: plin de/gem	Russian: джем
Slovak: džem; s džemom	Slovenian: marmelada	Serbian: džem
Swedish: sylt	Thai: แยม	Turkish: reçel, marmelât
Taiwanese: 果醬	Ukrainian: варення; джем	Urdu: پھلوں وغیرہ کا جام
Vietnamese: mứt	Chinese: 果酱
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