(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.
Pam
Definition:
(n.) The knave of clubs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
(2) This resulted in PAM and peritoneal macrophage lysosomal enzyme activity similar to control activity.
(3) [Tyr22] glucagon and [desHis1, Tyr22] glucagon were synthesized by an improved solid phase procedure on a Pam-resin.
(4) The role of IL-3 in the regulation of pulmonary alveolar macrophage (PAM) production was investigated.
(5) The mean size of human PAM was statistically greater than that for all other species evaluated, including nonhuman primates.
(6) Unlike bone marrow stem cells, PAM are unipotential and in vitro gave rise to only mononuclear phagocytes under the influence of IL-3.
(7) She really should have kept a dream journal, that Pam.
(8) The Lyt-2+ T-cells, and not the L3T4+ T-cells, were also found to be important for the ability of the intact L-PAM-cured MOPC-315 tumor bearers to reject a challenge with MOPC-315 tumor cells.
(9) The characteristics of the PAM hydroxylation process in vitro appear to reflect the efficiency of the extrarenal production of 1,25-(OH)2-D3 and the therapeutic efficacy of glucocorticoids in patients with sarcoidosis and disordered calcium metabolism.
(10) Similarly, PAM recovered from patients suffering from nonneoplastic interstitial lung disorders, i.e., sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, were shown to be susceptible to the cytotoxic function provided by LAK cells.
(11) Routine electron microscopic examination on the same portion where SPLS were confirmed by PAM electron microscopy revealed amorphous, partially fibrous structures.
(12) Single-drug therapy did not significantly decrease numbers of PAM in lavage fluids, but combined therapy led to a 60 per cent (P less than 0.01) decrease in numbers of PAM.
(13) Similar dramatic cytotoxicity of L-PAM was apparent in time-dependent SCE response studies.
(14) The results demonstrate that a PAM is present in secretory granules of anglerfish islet tissue.
(15) We found that the chemotactic activity of the culture media supernatants from PAM recovered from oxygen-pretreated rats given E was 80% higher than that of media from PAM recovered from air-exposed rats given E. Neither PAM from air-exposed rats nor those from oxygen-exposed rats spontaneously released chemotaxins selective for other PAM.
(16) Insertion of either the entire 2.13-kb EcoRI-HindIII fragment or a 0.73-kb EcoRI-DraI subfragment encoding only the resolvase into the pAM beta 1-based cloning vector pMTL500E causes a significant enhancement of segregational stability (from 6.5 X 10(-2) to 3.0-4.0 X 10(-3) plasmid loss per cell per generation).
(17) The KFr cell line proved to be 3.1-fold resistant to L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM).
(18) The effects of 5-(3,3-Dimethyl-1-triazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide (DTIC), 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea (MeCCNU), and L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM) have been compared by using three i.p.
(19) In the present studies, high levels of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), which catalyzes the formation of bioactive alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors, have been found in particulate fractions from bovine and rat heart atrium; only low levels of PAM activity were present in soluble fractions.
(20) PAM-A was still heterogeneous based on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.