(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.
Marmalade
Definition:
(n.) A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
(2) A similar meal in which guar was added to the bread and pectin to the marmalade resulted in significant reductions of blood glucose at 15 min (P less than 0.002) and 30 min (P less than 0.01).
(3) The meals comprised: wholemeal bread with margarine; white bread with margarine; marmalade made with sucrose, and cheddar cheese; and marmalade (22% of total energy) on wholemeal bread with margarine.
(4) By all means, adapt it to your taste: I've swapped the usual raspberry jam for a sharper blackcurrant, but cherry or bramble jam, or even marmalade might work nicely, too.
(5) For this gluten-free version, instead of the usual custard I have incorporated a couple of English favourites – Earl Grey tea and marmalade – to create this moist, sticky and citrussy bake.
(6) There’s tasty tapas too – olives marinated with oranges and lemons, cheese with homemade marmalade and salchichón salami, great paired with local Moscatel wine.
(7) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
(8) ‘Whatever possessed you?’ said Miss Brodie in a very Scottish way, as if Sandy had given away a pound of marmalade to an English duke.” My paperback edition runs to just 128 pages.
(9) Colin Firth has pulled out of the forthcoming film Paddington, where he was to voice the beloved marmalade-scoffing bear of the title.
(10) Marcella not only bakes her own bread (and makes the marmalade and plum jam to put on it) she sells it around the island and runs two-day sourdough courses.
(11) France needs high-quality, innovative British jams,” this read, “& marmalades.” Unfortunately, our highest profile exponent of marmalade is an illegal immigrant bear likely to fall foul of the next Home Office clampdown.
(12) In a small bowl, measure out the marmalade, nutmeg and eggs.
(13) Rooted in an earthly geography of Peru, Portobello Road and marmalade sandwiches, you knew where you were with Paddington.
(14) In Buenos Aires, the Richmond Salon- oak-panelled walls, chairs with red leather seats, extravagantly dripping candelabara - offers a straightforward 'Afternoon Tea' menu of biscuits, scones and toast with marmalade.
(15) Be aware of crumb and dairy contamination in your marmalade if you use a pot that is already open.
(16) Mentally handicapped children, aged 5--15 years and living in institutions, received fluoride supplement in several sugar products of their diet; in candies, marmalades, jams, fruit juices and in sweet desserts corresponding to 10 mg F as NaF per kg of the sugar (sucrose or glucose) of each product.
(17) Makes 12 squares 2 Earl Grey teabags 500ml boiling water 400g gluten-free white bread 150g thick-cut marmalade ¼ tsp ground nutmeg 2 eggs 350g sultanas 25g dairy-free margarine 2 tbsp golden syrup 1 Pour the boiling water over the teabags in a measuring jug.
(18) Test sessions compared the plaque pH response to 4 treatments: a 10% sucrose rinse, a 10% sorbitol rinse, a snack roll with marmalade and coffee, and the snack followed by gum chewing.
(19) Two meals, a milk meal of 500 ml, and a breakfast of eggs, toast, butter, marmalade, fruit juice and coffee, were eaten at breakfast time.
(20) In October, border guards seized some 600 tonnes of European meat that had been concealed under packages of gum and marmalade.