jam : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jam	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for jam
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jam n preserve of crushed fruit informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" Synonym(s): fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish a dense crowd of people Synonym(s): crush, jam, press deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems Synonym(s): jamming, electronic jamming, jam v press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" Synonym(s): throng, mob, pack, pile, jam push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" crush or bruise; "jam a toe" Synonym(s): jam, crush interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" Synonym(s): jam, block get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" Synonym(s): jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad block passage through; "obstruct the path" Synonym(s): obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up Antonym(s): disengage, free
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. [Per. or Hind. j[be]mah garment, robe.] A kind of frock for children.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. (Mining) See {Jamb}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jamming}.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See {Champ}.] 1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in. The . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe. 2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. [Colloq.] 3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. 1. 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. 2. An injury caused by jamming. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. [Prob. fr. jam, v.; but cf. also Ar. jamad ice, jelly, j[be]mid congealed, jamd congelation, ice.] A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam. {Jam nut}. See {Check nut}, under {Check}. {Jam weld} (Forging), a butt weld. See under {Butt}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
JaM John and Martin. An interpreted {FORTH}-like graphics language by John Warnock and Martin Newell, {Xerox PARC}, 1978. JaM was the forerunner of both {Interpress} and {PostScript}. It is mentioned in PostScript Language reference Manual, Adobe Systems, A-W 1985.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
jam A condition on a network where two nodes transmitting simultaneously detect the collision and continue to transmit for a certain time (4 to 6 bytes on Ethernet) to ensure that the collision has been detected by all nodes involved. (1994-12-12)