Define the word jammed"Jammed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Jam \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed (j[a^]md); p. pr. & vb.
n. Jamming.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between
jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See
Champ.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to
squeeze; to wedge in; to cram; as, rock fans jammed the
theater for the concert.
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The ship . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De
Foe.
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2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a
door. [Colloq.]
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3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half
her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.
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4. To block or obstruct by packing too much (people or
objects) into; as, shoppers jammed the aisles during the
fire sale.
[PJC]
5. (Radio) To interfere with (a radio signal) by sending
other signals of the same or nearby frequency; as, the
Soviets jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts for years
during the cold war.
[PJC]
6. To cause to become nonfunctional by putting something in
that blocks the movement of a part or parts; as, he jammed
the drawer by putting in too many loose papers; he jammed
the lock by trying to pick it.
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"jammed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
jammed \jammed\ adj.
filled to capacity or overfilled; as, the auditorium was
jammed to the rafters.
Syn: full, jam-packed, packed.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
"jammed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
jammed
See jam
"jammed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]
3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, 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]
v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile]
2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to
the floor"
3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: crush]
4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the
Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this
station" [syn: block]
5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct,
obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up]
[ant: free]
[also: jamming, jammed]
"jammed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
jammed
adj : filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes";
"stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" [syn:
jam-pawncked, packed]
"jammed" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "jammed":
aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward,
behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful,
brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained,
chock-full, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close,
close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested,
consolidated, constipated, costive, crammed, crammed full,
crawling, crowded, crowding, delayed, delayed-action, dense,
detained, distended, drenched, fast, fastened,
filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, foul, fouled, full, glued,
gluey, glutted, gorged, grounded, hard, heavy, held, held up,
high and dry, hung up, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable,
impermeable, in a bind, in abeyance, in profusion, in spate,
inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, late, latish, lavish, massive,
moored, moratory, never on time, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed,
overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overdue, overfed,
overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen,
overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted,
packed, plethoric, plugged, plugged up, populous, prodigal,
profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, retarded, rife,
running over, satiated, saturated, secure, serried, set, slow,
soaked, solid, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast,
studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant,
supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming,
swollen, taped, tardy, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail,
thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged,
thronging, tied, tight, transfixed, unpunctual, unready, untimely,
viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged
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