(v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.
(v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.
(v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An injury caused by jamming.
(n.) A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(2) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(4) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
(5) Full set list, show one (thanks to princevault.com ) Take Me With U (acoustic) Raspberry Beret (acoustic) U Got The Look (acoustic) Instrumental jam (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Q & A (1) incl.
(6) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.
(7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(8) Innovations such as jam jar accounts, run by credit unions, have been much lauded, but where they have been offered take up has been low with many complaining about the complexity and costs involved.
(9) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
(10) Even now, the surest sign that a developing country has started making money is the length of its traffic jams.
(11) 5 Dollop the blackcurrant jam all over the surface of the cooked custard and spread gently to level it.
(12) Kremlin-backed TV channels were jammed into the airspace, Russian-language newspapers disseminated stories and content produced in Moscow, while NGOs, funded by Russian money, offered up talking heads on every issue under the sun.
(13) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
(14) But we were, and are, important enough for them to spend millions of dollars on anti-riot gear, phone-tapping and tracing technology, CCTV and crowd-monitoring tools, satellite signal jamming and hundreds of other suppression devices to take us down.
(15) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(16) "Everybody was like, 'It's not gonna work, it's not gonna work', the big names, [Def Jam CEO] Russell Simmons, everybody ," he remembers.
(17) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
(18) So this significant step by the UK government could help to remove the log-jam."
(19) This alteration has been attributed to ribosomal traffic jams caused by starvation for ile-tRNA at mRNA codons corresponding to the locations of isoleucyl residues at positions alpha(10), alpha(17), alpha(55) and beta(112).
(20) Now it is time to add the sweet heart to your jam tart.
Kam
Definition:
(n.) Crooked; awry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of phenotypic characteristics of deletion plasmids pAS9, pAS10, pAS11, pAS12 and pAS10-2 permitted to propose the map for pAS8 plasmid with the following sequence of markers: tra--kam--ColE1--amp--tet... Heteroduplex analysis of deletion mutants of pAS8 permitted to construct a physical map and to elaborate in greater detail the functional map of RP4 plasmid.
(2) A stannous fluoride solution (0.717% SnF2, Gel-Kam, Scherer Laboratories, Dallas, TX) was applied to the entire treatment preparation of each tooth.
(3) The twin pairs were part of a larger collaborative study between Israel and Sweden (the KAM-project).
(4) Sarwar's family had reported him missing in May last year after they found a handwritten letter saying he had left to join a terrorist group called Kataib al-Muhajireen (KaM) to take part in jihad.
(5) The maximum value of ka when the histidine is fully protonated (kam) increases in the same order.
(6) They sped over dangerous roads and inhospitable mountains in planes chartered from local firms keen to turn aircraft into political influence – Kam Air (motto: Trustable Wings) and new contender East Horizon (no motto, just a sign on the plane advising: "chop here with crash axe").
(7) He wrote on Skype: "I come to join KaM," to which the Swede replied: "Inshallah (God willing)".
(8) Police searched the men's homes, revealing an online conversation between Ahmed and a Swedish national fighting with the KaM, during which Ahmed said he wanted to join the group.
(9) On second down Kam Chancellor just pops Vernon Davis, who naturally can't hold on.
(10) In addition it is found that Kam, henceforth Kam(At), varies with the total actin concentration At, but controversy continues over the actin dependence of Vamax.
(11) A key amino acid substitution specific for allotypic Gm b markers, b0, b3, b5, were determined through sequence analyses of the pFc' fragments of IgG1 (Su) and IgG3 (Ba[Gm(g)], Bu[Gm(b1b3)], and Kam[Gm(b3st)]) myeloma proteins.
(12) Group managing director of CKI, H L Kam, said: "We attach great importance to the skills and experience of the existing management and employees of Northumbrian and believe they will be an important factor in the continuing success of the Northumbrian group."
(13) Likewise, the apparent activation constant Kam is several fold weaker than KATPase.
(14) The KAMS group exhibited a transitory increase in BWt and increased male sexual behavior.
(15) Crabtree was open but he knows that Kam Chancellor was there to lay him out and he says, thanks but no thanks, and it costs San Francisco a first down as we head to the two minute warning.
(16) The amount that Kam awarded the victims falls well short of the $287m that the victims’ lawyers had asked for, and there was no allocation of money for collective compensation, which they had requested to build a memorial.
(17) Due to their high sequence similarity to the YmL9 protein two mammalian cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins [MRL3 human and rat; Ou, J.-H., Yen, T. S. B., Wang, Y.-F., Kam, W. K. & Rutter, W. J.
(18) Hissène Habré, who in May was convicted of crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary African Chambers , a court set up specifically to try him, must pay his victims up to $34,000 (£25,627) each, ordered the judge, Gberdao Gustave Kam.
(19) Two plays later, the quarterback is very lucky to avoid an interception as Kam Chancellor steps in front of a pass only to let the ball slip clean through his hands and fall to the floor.
(20) A second group was instructed to apply a gel containing .04% stannous fluoride (Gel-Kam) twice a day.