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jam | American Dictionary

jam
verb
us/dʒæm/-mm-

jamverb (PUSH)

[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
to push something hard with sudden effort:
[ M ]She jammed on the brakes when the light turned red.

jamverb (PACK)

[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
to pack tightly into a small space:
He jammed the boxes into the trunk of the car.

jamverb (BECOME STUCK)

[ I/T ]
to become stuck and unable to move, or to be stuck in something:
[ I ]My key jammed in the lock.
[ T ]Paper was jamming the printer.

jamverb (MUSIC)

[ I ]
to play popular music informally with other people, without planning it or practicing together:
He once jammed with Charlie Parker.
jam
noun
us/dʒæm/

jamnoun (SITUATION)

[ C ]infml
a difficult situation:
She expects her parents to bail her out whenever she gets in a jam.

jamnoun (FOOD)

[ U ]
a soft, sweet food made by cooking fruit with sugar:
strawberry/raspberry jam on toast

Examples of jam

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This last refers to states that are jammed between the external pressure of the global economy and internal forces of social change.
He was cordial and polite enough, but when he got into a jam with people, he became nasty.
He identified wedging and jamming conditions and recommended ways to avoid insertion failure.
In addition, they can be jammed, overloaded, or spoofed, often by cheap devices freely available on the open market.
In reality, musical practices during jam sessions, although certainly containing spontaneous elements, also reveal hierarchical relationships when examined more closely.
For this is a very important ingredient common to all the jam pots.
After a while, they stopped pushing if their wheels jammed or if they considered that they have completed their push.
It is necessary to use a defined force to move the alignment pins (3) jammed inside guidances (2) in parallel to the micro motors.
These jamming diagrams can be used to plan fine motion strategies for successful insertions.
But then they ran into fog and close ice, along with a northwesterly gale that jammed the ice against the coast.
This not only generates traffic jams; it also stimulates demands in the political process for knocking down buildings for the purpose of broadening the streets.
The robot's wheels would jam if the robot pushed the wrong object such as another retrieval robot or the sides of the table.
The occasional pudding was commonly of the suet variety with jam or treacle.
A pin at a critical pin height is guaranteed to topple the part from one stable orientation to the next without jamming.
In the paper, a complete contact and jamming analysis of dual peg-in-hole insertion needs to be done in three dimensions.
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