jam
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
preserve of crushed fruit
Types & categories
- conserve hypernym
- strawberry jam hyponym
Sense 2 verb
press tightly together or cram
The crowd packed the auditorium
Types & categories
- crowd together hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
he got into a terrible fix
Types & categories
- difficulty hypernym
- dog's breakfast hyponym
Sense 4 verb
push down forcibly
The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor
Types & categories
- push hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a dense crowd of people
Types & categories
- crowd hypernym
- traffic jam hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
crush or bruise
jam a toe
Types & categories
- bruise hypernym
Sense 7 noun
deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
Types & categories
- electronic countermeasures hypernym
- barrage jamming hyponym
- spot jamming hyponym
Related & opposite
- block derivation
Sense 8 verb
interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
Jam the Voice of America
Types & categories
- interrupt hypernym
- barrage jam hyponym
- point jam hyponym
- spot jam hyponym
- blanket jam hyponym
Related & opposite
- jamming derivation
Sense 9 verb
get stuck and immobilized
the mechanism jammed
Types & categories
- malfunction hypernym
Sense 10 verb
crowd or pack to capacity
the theater was jampacked
Types & categories
- stuff hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 11 verb
block passage through
obstruct the path
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- disengage antonym
- blocking derivation
- obstruction derivation
- blockage derivation
- obstruction derivation
- obturator derivation
- clogging derivation
- occlusive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | conserve |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | strawberry jam |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pile |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | concourse |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rout |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lot |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd together |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | difficulty |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | dog's breakfast |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | push |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cram |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | press |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | traffic jam |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | bruise |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | block |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | electronic countermeasures |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | barrage jamming |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | spot jamming |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | jamming |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | interrupt |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | barrage jam |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | point jam |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | spot jam |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | blanket jam |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | malfunction |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | crush |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | lot |
| 10 | verb group | Related & opposite | cram |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | stuff |
| 11 | antonym | Related & opposite | disengage |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | blocking |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | obstruction |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | blockage |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | obstruction |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | obturator |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | clogging |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | occlusive |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | hinder |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | block off |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | barricado |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | barricade |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | suffocate |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | tie up |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | dam |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | block out |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | land up |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | block |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | clog |