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Meaning of jam


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  jam
      n 1: preserve of crushed fruit
      2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
         terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
         {fix}, {hole}, {jam}, {mess}, {muddle}, {pickle}, {kettle of
         fish}]
      3: a dense crowd of people [syn: {crush}, {jam}, {press}]
      4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy
         for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices
         or systems [syn: {jamming}, {electronic jamming}, {jam}]
      v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
           auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}, {jam}]
      2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the
         floor"
      3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: {jam}, {crush}]
      4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the
         Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this
         station" [syn: {jam}, {block}]
      5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
      6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
         {jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}, {wad}]
      7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: {obstruct},
         {obturate}, {impede}, {occlude}, {jam}, {block}, {close up}]
         [ant: {disengage}, {free}]


WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu

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