| NOUN | food | jam | preserve of crushed fruit |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | jam, fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish | informal terms for a difficult situation | |
| group | jam, crush, press | a dense crowd of people | |
| act | jam, jamming, electronic jamming | deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems | |
| VERB | motion | jam, throng, mob, pack, pile | press tightly together or cram |
| motion | jam | push down forcibly | |
| contact | jam, crush | crush or bruise | |
| communication | jam, block | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | |
| contact | jam | get stuck and immobilized | |
| contact | jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad | crowd or pack to capacity | |
| contact | jam, obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up | block passage through |
| Sounds | jhae'm | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Abraham ... yam: 73 rhymes with aem... | |
| Meaning | preserve of crushed fruit. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | strawberry jam, strawberry preserves | made with strawberries |
| Broader | conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves | fruit preserved by cooking with sugar |
| Spanish | confitura, mermelada | |
| Catalan | confitura | |
| Meaning | informal terms for a difficult situation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish | |
| Narrower | dog's breakfast, dog's dinner | A poor job |
| Broader | difficulty | A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome |
| Spanish | atolladero, berenjenal, embrollo, enredo, lío, maraña, taco | |
| Catalan | batibull, embolic, embull, galimaties, garbuix, merder | |
| Meaning | A dense crowd of people. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | crush, press | |
| Narrower | traffic jam, snarl-up | A number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
| Broader | crowd | A large number of things or people considered together |
| Spanish | aglomeración, gentío, muchedumbre, turba | |
| Catalan | aglomeració, gentada, munió, turba | |
| Verbs | jam | crowd or pack to capacity |
| Meaning | Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | jamming, electronic jamming | |
| Narrower | barrage jamming | electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously |
| spot jamming, selective jamming | electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency | |
| Broader | electronic countermeasures, ECM | electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| Spanish | interferencia electrónica | |
| Verbs | jam | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals |
| Meaning | Press tightly together or cram. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | throng, mob, pack, pile | |
| Caused by | pack | Fill to capacity |
| Broader | crowd, crowd together | To gather together in large numbers |
| Spanish | abarrotar, atestar, llenar | |
| Catalan | abarrotar, apilotar-se, apinyar-se, atapeir, omplir | |
| Meaning | Push down forcibly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" | |
| Broader | push, force | Move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" |
| Spanish | trabar | |
| Catalan | travar | |
| Meaning | crush or bruise. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | Did he jam his foot? | |
| Example | "jam a toe" | |
| Synonym | crush | |
| Broader | bruise, contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of |
| Spanish | aplastar, machacar, magullar, majar, moler, triturar | |
| Catalan | aixafar, esclafar, moldre, triturar | |
| Meaning | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "Jam the Voice of America" | |
| Synonym | block | |
| Narrower | barrage jam | jam an entire frequency spectrum |
| blanket jam | jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications | |
| point jam | jam a narrow band of frequencies | |
| spot jam | jam a single frequency | |
| Broader | interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off | make a break / break in |
| Spanish | bloquear, interceptar, interferir | |
| Catalan | blocar, interferir | |
| Nouns | jamming, jam | deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems |
| Meaning | get stuck and immobilized. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Model | They want to jam the doors | |
| Example | "the mechanism jammed" | |
| Broader | malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly |
| Spanish | atascarse, atascar | |
| Meaning | crowd or pack to capacity. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s something with something | |
| Model | They jam the books into the box | |
| Example | "the theater was jampacked" | |
| Synonyms | jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad | |
| Broader | stuff | Cram into a cavity |
| Similar to | cram | put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled |
| Spanish | abarrotar, apiñar, apretar, apretujar, embutir, empacar | |
| Catalan | abarrotar, apinyar, atapeir, embotir, empacar, entaforar, estrènyer, farcir, ficar, masegar | |
| Nouns | jam | a dense crowd of people |
| Meaning | Block passage through. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up | |
| Narrower | barricade, barricado | block off with barricades |
| barricade | prevent access to by barricading | |
| barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar | Render unsuitable for passage | |
| blockade, block off | obstruct access to | |
| clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul | Become or cause to become obstructed | |
| dam, dam up | obstruct with, or as if with, a dam | |
| land up, earth up | Block with earth, as after a landslide | |
| screen, block out | prevent from entering | |
| suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | |
| tie up | Restrain from moving or operating normally | |
| Broader | impede, hinder | Be a hindrance or obstacle to |
| Opposite | free, disengage | Free or remove obstruction from |
| Spanish | bloquear, entorpecer, estorbar, obstaculizar, obstruir, ocluir | |
| Catalan | blocar, obstruir | |
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