camn.¹

Brit.

/kam/, U.S.

/kæm/

Forms: Also camb, camm.

Etymology: compare Dutch kam (Middle Dutch cam ), German kamm , Danish and Swedish kam , the same word as English comb n., but also applied to a ‘toothed rim or part of a wheel, teeth of a wheel’, as in Dutch kamrad, German kammrad, Danish and Swedish kamhjul ‘toothed wheel, cog-wheel’; thence also modern French came ‘cog, tooth, catch of a wheel, sort of tooth applied to the axle of a machine, or cut in the axle, to serve to raise a pestle or forge-hammer’. Taken into English probably either from Dutch or French The primary meaning of Germanic kambo- was ‘toothed instrument’; compare its cognates Greek γόμϕο- tooth, peg, Sanskrit jambha- tusk, Old Slavonic ząbŭ tooth: see comb n.

A projecting part of a wheel or other revolving piece of machinery, adapted to impart an alternating or variable motion of any kind to another piece pressing against it, by sliding or rolling contact. Much used in machines in which a uniform revolving motion is employed to actuate any kind of non-uniform, alternating, elliptical, or rectilineal movement. The original method was by cogs or teeth fixed or cut at certain points in the circumference or disc of a wheel, but the name has been extended to any kind of eccentric, heart-shaped, or spiral disc, or other appliance that serves a similar purpose.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cams

snail-cam1591

snail-work1591

snail1714

cam1777

heart wheel1786

snail-wheel1831

heart1834

heart cam1835

1777 W. Vicker Specif. Patent 1168 The wheel F turning a cylinder with a cam and two crankes.

1805 J. Hartop Specif. Patent 2888 Upon any axis A..apply a pin, cam, crank or curve or curves C.

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 269 Camms, or wheels of eccentric form.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. vi. 33 If one or more projecting pieces, called cams, are fixed on the axis opposite to the end of each lever.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 418.

1867 Athenæum No. 2084. 440/3 An iron camb for power-looms.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 407/2 Cams are variously-formed plates, or grooves, by means of which a circular may be converted into a reciprocating motion.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

cam-ball valve n.

cam-gear wheel n.

cam-groove n.

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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 393/1 A cam-groove cut in the reverse side of the crank-plate.

cam-wheel n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 435/2 The duty of the cam-wheel is to give an intermittent reciprocating motion to the bar.

C2.

cam-box n. a frame surrounding a cam and designed to compel the rod which the cam drives to follow the return motion of the projecting lobe; also, a casing enclosing the cam and its rollers in order that copious lubrication may be secured by having the cams revolve in a bath of oil ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).

cam-cutter n. a machine-tool specially adapted for cutting and finishing cams.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > specific tools

hook1680

rough grinder1777

side tool1804

bottom tool1819

broad1846

sweep1847

wobbler1875

knurl1879

cam-cuttera1884

fly-cutter1884

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 156 Cam Cutter.

1922 F. B. Jacobs Cam Design 74 The hand-made master cam is now placed in position on the cam cutter head spindle.

cam-pump n. a pump in which the valve motion is given by a cam.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > other types of pump

bottom lift1778

rose pump1778

centrifugal pump1789

jack-heada1792

jet pump1850

sand-pump1865

Union pump1867

shell-pump1875

eductor1877

brake-pump1881

bull-pump1881

cam-pumpa1884

sand-reel1883

grasshopper1884

knapsack pump1894

knapsack sprayer1897

turbo-pump1903

Sylphon1906

slush pump1913

displacement pump1924

power pack1937

proportioner1945

solids pump1957

peristaltic pump1958

powerhead1981

Cornish pump-

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 157 Drayton Cam Pump.

camshaft n. a shaft bearing a cam or cams; also attributive.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > carrying cam(s)

tumbling shaft?1790

camshaft1874

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [adjective] > specific types

camshaft1874

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 435/2 Cam-shaft, a shaft having cams or wipers, for raising the pestles of stamping-mills.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 4/1 Depressing the cam-shaft pedal.

1955 Times 20 Aug. 4/3 The new B.R.M. has a 2½-litre short stroke 4-cylinder engine with overhead cam-shafts.

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cam-yoke n. a frame attached to a valve-stem or other reciprocating piece to which it gives intermittent straight-line motion from a cam on the face of a rotating disc; used in steam-engine valve-gears ( Funk's Standard Dict. 1893).

Draft additions June 2015

Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. = camming device n. at camming n.¹ Compounds.

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1976 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 50 343 (caption) The ‘Abalakov Cam’ is cut from an industrial flywheel... It is designed to fit and lock in a wide range of crack sizes without adjustment.

1995 Guardian 21 Mar. b13/1 The cams will grip the parallel sides of cracks and are designed so that when a force pulls on the shaft, it pushes the cams harder against the sides of the crack.

2004 Rock & Ice Jan. 32/1 Austrian ace free-climbs El Cap having never placed a cam.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

camn.²

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: = Scots kame , kaim , < Old Norse kamb-r (Danish and Swedish kam ) comb n., crest, serrated ridge, crest or ridge of a hill, etc. The same word originally as comb n., and cam n.¹, but the three come through distinct channels, and there is no consciousness of their identity.

northern dialect.

A ridge; a long narrow earthen mound; the bank on which a hedge is planted or the like.

ΚΠ

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 320 Cam, any long mound of made earth.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 24 Cam, a mound of earth, a bank boundary to a field.

1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. Introd. 26 (Yorksh. dial.) Cum doun t' cam' soid.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Cam, a rise of hedge-ground; generally cam-side.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

camn.³

Etymology: < cam adj. or cam v.¹

dialect.

Contradiction, crossing in purpose.

ΚΠ

1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) When he meets wi cam, there's no good to be done.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

CAMn.⁴

Brit.

/kam/, U.S.

/kæm/

Forms: Also C.A.M. ship, ˈcam-ship.

Etymology: < the initials of Catapult Aircraft Merchant-ship.

A merchant-ship equipped with a fighter plane launched by catapult.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > types of vessel used for war trade > [noun]

dromond13..

hagboat1353

cog1373

cog ship1376

carrackc1386

dromedary?c1475

galleon1529

drumbler1598

hag1725

CAM1943

1943 Cosmopolitan Aug. 14/1 Every eye was turned instinctively to the C.A.M., the convoy's Catapult Aircraft Merchantship, the defiant reply of the Royal Air Force to Nazi air assault on British merchant shipping.

1944 A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II 18 CAM: Catapult Aircraft Merchantship. Adopted by the RAF, to accompany and afford protection to convoys.

1945 L. R. Gribble Battle Stories of R.A.F. vii. 18 Volunteered to fly with convoys as a catafighter on a Cam-ship.

1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm 152 These catapult ships were known as Camships.

1956 ‘Taffrail’ Arctic Convoy xix. 201 A ‘C.A.M.’ ship..an ordinary cargo-carrier fitted with a catapult forward with a single Hurricane fighter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

camn.⁵

Brit.

/kam/, U.S.

/kæm/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: camera n.

Etymology: Shortened < camera n., in some early uses perhaps as a graphic abbreviation. Compare earlier minicam n.Compare the following earlier example of Gam-Cam, a brand name for a type of handheld camera:1910 Daily Mail 8 July 1/6 (advt.) New 1910 ‘Gam-Cam’ hand camera.

A camera; spec. a video camera. Chiefly as the second element in compounds, with the first element indicating what the camera is designed to view (as in baby cam) or where it is carried or positioned (as in body cam).In quot. 1969 as a graphic abbreviation.Compare earlier minicam n.dashcam, headcam, kiss cam, nanny cam, skycam, etc.: see the first element.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video camera

camera1909

video camera1939

cam1969

camcorder1982

1969 P. Fonda et al. Easy Rider: Orig. Screenplay 44 (stage direct.) Wyatt Right fg [sc. foreground], back to cam.

1981 Daily Independent (Kannapolis, N. Carolina) 30 July 5 b/1 Two cars entered in the race..will be equipped with the Racecam, a camera one-foot high, 10-inches long and weighing less than three pounds, to provide viewers with a driver's-eye view of the competition.

1993 Vancouver Sun 2 Feb. d8 Bettman talked about ways to make hockey more user-friendly to the American viewer—..high-definition TV, sky-cams, goalie-cams, lots of cams.

2005 R. Eversz Digging James Dean xxiii. 143 Night-vision devices, GPS tracking systems, body cams, covert cams—you have the same surveillance gear the cops use available to you, if you're smart enough to use them.

2019 National Geographic Jan. 30/2 Parents can keep a digital eye on their infant via a baby cam.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† camadj.adv.

Forms: Also kam, (1600s kamme).

Etymology: Adopted from Celtic: in Welsh cam crooked, bent, bowed, awry, wrong, false; Gaelic cam crooked, bent, blind of one eye; Manx cam (as in Gaelic); Irish cam < Old Irish camm crooked, representing an Old Celtic *cambo-s, as in the proper name Cambodunum ‘crooked town’. In English probably < Welsh, and no doubt in oral use long before the 16th cent. when first found in literature; the derived form cammed is in the Promptorium.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A. adj.

Crooked, twisted, bent from the straight. Hence modern dialect. Perverse, obstinate, ‘cross’.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew

obliquate?a1425

cama1600

ajee1816

askew1831

skew-whiff1839

splay1873

catawampous1885

skewgee1890

cockeye1891

boss-eyed1898

skewy1898

cockeyed1899

squiffy1941

akimbo1943

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse

wharfedc1175

thwart-over?c1225

fromwardc1275

thwarta1325

wilgernc1325

contrariousa1340

froward1340

rebours1340

awaywarda1375

overthwartc1384

protervec1384

waywardc1384

arsewardc1386

wrawc1386

wrawfulc1386

crabbeda1400

ungraitha1400

wraweda1400

awklyc1400

perversec1425

awkc1440

perversiosec1475

crooked1508

wrayward1516

awkward1530

difficilec1533

peevish1539

protervous1547

overthwarting1552

untowardly1561

difficult1589

cross1594

cama1600

frowish1601

awkwardish1613

haggardly1635

pigheadeda1637

cross-grained1647

wry1649

crossfulc1680

thwarting1718

kim-kama1734

wronghead1737

piggish1742

witherly1790

top-thrawn1808

contrary1850

cussed1858

three-cornered1863

thwarteous1890

bloody-minded1935

a1600 R. Hooker Learned Serm. Pride (1612) 4 His mind is perverse, cam, and crooked.

1642 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 117 Cam is thy name, Cam are thyne eyies and wayes..Cam are thy lookes, thyne eyies thy ways bewrayes.

1853 J. Y. Akerman Wiltshire Tales 138 As cam and as obstinate as a mule.

1862 Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. V. 236/2 As cam as a peg.

B. adv.

Away from the straight line, awry, askew (also figurative). clean cam (kam), ‘crooked, athwart, awry, cross from the purpose’ (Johnson); cf. kim-kam adj.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew

acrooka1387

wrongc1440

overthwartlya1470

adoylea1475

awry1487

crooked1545

across1559

askew1565

cam1579

alurk1581

skew-whiff1754

a-twist1755

agley1786

skeow-ways1869

off-kilter1929

the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase] > askew

on or upon wry1423

clean cam (kam)1579

out of straight1678

on the jee1893

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 909/1 We speake in good earnest, and meane not..to say, walk on, behaue your selues manfully: and go cleane kam our selues like Creuises.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Contrefoil The wrong way, cleane contrarie, quite kamme.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 305 Sicin. This is cleane kamme. Brut. Meerely awry.

1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. xxvii Here they go quite kam, and act clean contrary to others.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Kam, crooked.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

camv.¹

Brit.

/kam/, U.S.

/kæm/

Etymology: < cam adj.

dialect.

transitive and intransitive. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 18 So ot teh [so that they] camm'd little or none; boh agreed t' pey aw meoon [to pay all between them].

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (at cited word) A person who treads down the shoe heel is said to cam. North.

1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Colloq. use. He cams his shoon at th' heel.

1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cam, to cross or contradict; to oppose vexatiously; to quarrel. I'll cam him, an' get up his temper.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

camv.²

Brit.

/kam/, U.S.

/kæm/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cam n.⁵

Etymology: < cam n.⁵Compare webcam v. (especially in sense 2).

1. transitive. To record or film (someone or something) with a camera, esp. a video camera, camcorder, or webcam. Also intransitive.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > make video recording of [verb (transitive)]

videotape1957

video1960

videorecord1972

cam1991

1991 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 10 Feb. (Pacific Sunday section) 15/2 I figured out the reason I keep getting ‘cammed’. At my age there are those who feel that I might not be here much longer—so folks, let's get a record of her!

2003 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. Everyone seems to be camming these days and judging by the number of e-mails I receive asking about webcam software, I'm guessing the trend's here to stay.

2003 Salon.com (Nexis) 17 July [Her] nanny was cammed by a previous employer without her knowledge.

2019 @SecretCommando 13 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Dec. 2020) You could have simply cammed them directly from the tv screen into the camera app of an iPhone.

2. intransitive. To perform sexual or erotic acts on a live webcam broadcast, esp. as a type of sex work. Also (and earliest) transitive: to perform for (a person) in this way. Cf. webcam v. 2, camming n.² 2.

ΚΠ

2004 National Post (Canada) 3 July t1/4 Now, it seems, explicitly ‘camming’ someone online has become as common as a handshake.

2015 Stranger 10 June 16/2 I asked two highly successful Seattle models..about what first motivated them to cam.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

CAM

CAM n. Cell Biology cellular (or cell) adhesion molecule.

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1976 U. Rutishauser et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73 580/2 The problem..is to relate the antigenic determinants on F2 to a cell surface molecule... These determinants are present on a cell adhesion molecule (CAM).

1994 Arthritis News Dec. 12/1 The white cells..link the CAMs on their surface to ICAM-1 molecules on the surface of the cells in distress.

2004 E. T. Stoeckli in J. Behrens & W. J. Nelson Cell Adhesion 392 Cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF CAMs) were discovered 25 years ago based on their role in cell–cell adhesion.

extracted from Cn.

CAM

CAM n. computer-aided (or -assisted) manufacturing (or manufacture).

ΚΠ

1971 WESCON Techn. Papers 15 xxii. ii. 3/2 Any CAD/CAM process chosen..should be capable of producing the necessary documentation required to satisfy and expediate all departmental functions required for manufacturing the end item.

1995 N. Valley Business Jrnl. (Nexis) Jan. 12 [The design]..goes into [a] computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) program, which is then downloaded into a CNC (computer numerical control) machine for milling.

2012 G. B. Shelly et al. Discovering Computers xii. 471 CAM production equipment includes software-controlled drilling, lathe, welding, and milling machines.

extracted from Cn.

n.¹1777

n.²1788

n.³1875

n.⁴1943

n.⁵1969

adj.adv.1579

v.¹?1748

v.²1991

as lemmas

单词	cam
释义	camn.¹ Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/ Forms: Also camb, camm. Etymology: compare Dutch kam (Middle Dutch cam ), German kamm , Danish and Swedish kam , the same word as English comb n., but also applied to a ‘toothed rim or part of a wheel, teeth of a wheel’, as in Dutch kamrad, German kammrad, Danish and Swedish kamhjul ‘toothed wheel, cog-wheel’; thence also modern French came ‘cog, tooth, catch of a wheel, sort of tooth applied to the axle of a machine, or cut in the axle, to serve to raise a pestle or forge-hammer’. Taken into English probably either from Dutch or French The primary meaning of Germanic kambo- was ‘toothed instrument’; compare its cognates Greek γόμϕο- tooth, peg, Sanskrit jambha- tusk, Old Slavonic ząbŭ tooth: see comb n. A projecting part of a wheel or other revolving piece of machinery, adapted to impart an alternating or variable motion of any kind to another piece pressing against it, by sliding or rolling contact. Much used in machines in which a uniform revolving motion is employed to actuate any kind of non-uniform, alternating, elliptical, or rectilineal movement. The original method was by cogs or teeth fixed or cut at certain points in the circumference or disc of a wheel, but the name has been extended to any kind of eccentric, heart-shaped, or spiral disc, or other appliance that serves a similar purpose. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters > cams snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 snail1714 cam1777 heart wheel1786 snail-wheel1831 heart1834 heart cam1835 1777 W. Vicker Specif. Patent 1168 The wheel F turning a cylinder with a cam and two crankes. 1805 J. Hartop Specif. Patent 2888 Upon any axis A..apply a pin, cam, crank or curve or curves C. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 269 Camms, or wheels of eccentric form. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. vi. 33 If one or more projecting pieces, called cams, are fixed on the axis opposite to the end of each lever. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 418. 1867 Athenæum No. 2084. 440/3 An iron camb for power-looms. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 407/2 Cams are variously-formed plates, or grooves, by means of which a circular may be converted into a reciprocating motion. Compounds C1. General attributive. cam-ball valve n. cam-gear wheel n. cam-groove n. ΚΠ 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 393/1 A cam-groove cut in the reverse side of the crank-plate. cam-wheel n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 435/2 The duty of the cam-wheel is to give an intermittent reciprocating motion to the bar. C2. cam-box n. a frame surrounding a cam and designed to compel the rod which the cam drives to follow the return motion of the projecting lobe; also, a casing enclosing the cam and its rollers in order that copious lubrication may be secured by having the cams revolve in a bath of oil ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909). cam-cutter n. a machine-tool specially adapted for cutting and finishing cams. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > specific tools hook1680 rough grinder1777 side tool1804 bottom tool1819 broad1846 sweep1847 wobbler1875 knurl1879 cam-cuttera1884 fly-cutter1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 156 Cam Cutter. 1922 F. B. Jacobs Cam Design 74 The hand-made master cam is now placed in position on the cam cutter head spindle. cam-pump n. a pump in which the valve motion is given by a cam. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > other types of pump bottom lift1778 rose pump1778 centrifugal pump1789 jack-heada1792 jet pump1850 sand-pump1865 Union pump1867 shell-pump1875 eductor1877 brake-pump1881 bull-pump1881 cam-pumpa1884 sand-reel1883 grasshopper1884 knapsack pump1894 knapsack sprayer1897 turbo-pump1903 Sylphon1906 slush pump1913 displacement pump1924 power pack1937 proportioner1945 solids pump1957 peristaltic pump1958 powerhead1981 Cornish pump- a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 157 Drayton Cam Pump. camshaft n. a shaft bearing a cam or cams; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > carrying cam(s) tumbling shaft?1790 camshaft1874 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [adjective] > specific types camshaft1874 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 435/2 Cam-shaft, a shaft having cams or wipers, for raising the pestles of stamping-mills. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 4/1 Depressing the cam-shaft pedal. 1955 Times 20 Aug. 4/3 The new B.R.M. has a 2½-litre short stroke 4-cylinder engine with overhead cam-shafts. Categories » cam-yoke n. a frame attached to a valve-stem or other reciprocating piece to which it gives intermittent straight-line motion from a cam on the face of a rotating disc; used in steam-engine valve-gears ( Funk's Standard Dict. 1893). Draft additions June 2015 Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. = camming device n. at camming n.¹ Compounds. ΚΠ 1976 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 50 343 (caption) The ‘Abalakov Cam’ is cut from an industrial flywheel... It is designed to fit and lock in a wide range of crack sizes without adjustment. 1995 Guardian 21 Mar. b13/1 The cams will grip the parallel sides of cracks and are designed so that when a force pulls on the shaft, it pushes the cams harder against the sides of the crack. 2004 Rock & Ice Jan. 32/1 Austrian ace free-climbs El Cap having never placed a cam. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). camn.² Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: = Scots kame , kaim , < Old Norse kamb-r (Danish and Swedish kam ) comb n., crest, serrated ridge, crest or ridge of a hill, etc. The same word originally as comb n., and cam n.¹, but the three come through distinct channels, and there is no consciousness of their identity. northern dialect. A ridge; a long narrow earthen mound; the bank on which a hedge is planted or the like. ΚΠ 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 320 Cam, any long mound of made earth. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 24 Cam, a mound of earth, a bank boundary to a field. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. Introd. 26 (Yorksh. dial.) Cum doun t' cam' soid. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Cam, a rise of hedge-ground; generally cam-side. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). camn.³ Etymology: < cam adj. or cam v.¹ dialect. Contradiction, crossing in purpose. ΚΠ 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) When he meets wi cam, there's no good to be done. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018). CAMn.⁴ Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/ Forms: Also C.A.M. ship, ˈcam-ship. Etymology: < the initials of Catapult Aircraft Merchant-ship. A merchant-ship equipped with a fighter plane launched by catapult. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > types of vessel used for war trade > [noun] dromond13.. hagboat1353 cog1373 cog ship1376 carrackc1386 dromedary?c1475 galleon1529 drumbler1598 hag1725 CAM1943 1943 Cosmopolitan Aug. 14/1 Every eye was turned instinctively to the C.A.M., the convoy's Catapult Aircraft Merchantship, the defiant reply of the Royal Air Force to Nazi air assault on British merchant shipping. 1944 A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II 18 CAM: Catapult Aircraft Merchantship. Adopted by the RAF, to accompany and afford protection to convoys. 1945 L. R. Gribble Battle Stories of R.A.F. vii. 18 Volunteered to fly with convoys as a catafighter on a Cam-ship. 1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm 152 These catapult ships were known as Camships. 1956 ‘Taffrail’ Arctic Convoy xix. 201 A ‘C.A.M.’ ship..an ordinary cargo-carrier fitted with a catapult forward with a single Hurricane fighter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). camn.⁵ Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: camera n. Etymology: Shortened < camera n., in some early uses perhaps as a graphic abbreviation. Compare earlier minicam n.Compare the following earlier example of Gam-Cam, a brand name for a type of handheld camera:1910 Daily Mail 8 July 1/6 (advt.) New 1910 ‘Gam-Cam’ hand camera. A camera; spec. a video camera. Chiefly as the second element in compounds, with the first element indicating what the camera is designed to view (as in baby cam) or where it is carried or positioned (as in body cam).In quot. 1969 as a graphic abbreviation.Compare earlier minicam n.dashcam, headcam, kiss cam, nanny cam, skycam, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video camera camera1909 video camera1939 cam1969 camcorder1982 1969 P. Fonda et al. Easy Rider: Orig. Screenplay 44 (stage direct.) Wyatt Right fg [sc. foreground], back to cam. 1981 Daily Independent (Kannapolis, N. Carolina) 30 July 5 b/1 Two cars entered in the race..will be equipped with the Racecam, a camera one-foot high, 10-inches long and weighing less than three pounds, to provide viewers with a driver's-eye view of the competition. 1993 Vancouver Sun 2 Feb. d8 Bettman talked about ways to make hockey more user-friendly to the American viewer—..high-definition TV, sky-cams, goalie-cams, lots of cams. 2005 R. Eversz Digging James Dean xxiii. 143 Night-vision devices, GPS tracking systems, body cams, covert cams—you have the same surveillance gear the cops use available to you, if you're smart enough to use them. 2019 National Geographic Jan. 30/2 Parents can keep a digital eye on their infant via a baby cam. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † camadj.adv. Forms: Also kam, (1600s kamme). Etymology: Adopted from Celtic: in Welsh cam crooked, bent, bowed, awry, wrong, false; Gaelic cam crooked, bent, blind of one eye; Manx cam (as in Gaelic); Irish cam < Old Irish camm crooked, representing an Old Celtic cambo-s, as in the proper name Cambodunum* ‘crooked town’. In English probably < Welsh, and no doubt in oral use long before the 16th cent. when first found in literature; the derived form cammed is in the Promptorium. Obsolete exc. dialect. A. adj. Crooked, twisted, bent from the straight. Hence modern dialect. Perverse, obstinate, ‘cross’. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew obliquate?a1425 cama1600 ajee1816 askew1831 skew-whiff1839 splay1873 catawampous1885 skewgee1890 cockeye1891 boss-eyed1898 skewy1898 cockeyed1899 squiffy1941 akimbo1943 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse wharfedc1175 thwart-over?c1225 fromwardc1275 thwarta1325 wilgernc1325 contrariousa1340 froward1340 rebours1340 awaywarda1375 overthwartc1384 protervec1384 waywardc1384 arsewardc1386 wrawc1386 wrawfulc1386 crabbeda1400 ungraitha1400 wraweda1400 awklyc1400 perversec1425 awkc1440 perversiosec1475 crooked1508 wrayward1516 awkward1530 difficilec1533 peevish1539 protervous1547 overthwarting1552 untowardly1561 difficult1589 cross1594 cama1600 frowish1601 awkwardish1613 haggardly1635 pigheadeda1637 cross-grained1647 wry1649 crossfulc1680 thwarting1718 kim-kama1734 wronghead1737 piggish1742 witherly1790 top-thrawn1808 contrary1850 cussed1858 three-cornered1863 thwarteous1890 bloody-minded1935 a1600 R. Hooker Learned Serm. Pride (1612) 4 His mind is perverse, cam, and crooked. 1642 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 117 Cam is thy name, Cam are thyne eyies and wayes..Cam are thy lookes, thyne eyies thy ways bewrayes. 1853 J. Y. Akerman Wiltshire Tales 138 As cam and as obstinate as a mule. 1862 Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. V. 236/2 As cam as a peg. B. adv. Away from the straight line, awry, askew (also figurative). clean cam (kam), ‘crooked, athwart, awry, cross from the purpose’ (Johnson); cf. kim-kam adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew acrooka1387 wrongc1440 overthwartlya1470 adoylea1475 awry1487 crooked1545 across1559 askew1565 cam1579 alurk1581 skew-whiff1754 a-twist1755 agley1786 skeow-ways1869 off-kilter1929 the world > space > relative position > inclination > obliquely [phrase] > askew on or upon wry1423 clean cam (kam)1579 out of straight1678 on the jee1893 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 909/1 We speake in good earnest, and meane not..to say, walk on, behaue your selues manfully: and go cleane kam our selues like Creuises. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Contrefoil The wrong way, cleane contrarie, quite kamme. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 305 Sicin. This is cleane kamme. Brut. Meerely awry. View more context for this quotation 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. xxvii Here they go quite kam, and act clean contrary to others. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Kam, crooked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). camv.¹ Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/ Etymology: < cam adj. dialect. transitive and intransitive. (See quots.) ΚΠ ?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 18 So ot teh [so that they] camm'd little or none; boh agreed t' pey aw meoon [to pay all between them]. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (at cited word) A person who treads down the shoe heel is said to cam. North. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Colloq. use. He cams his shoon at th' heel. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cam, to cross or contradict; to oppose vexatiously; to quarrel. I'll cam him, an' get up his temper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). camv.² Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cam n.⁵ Etymology: < cam n.⁵Compare webcam v. (especially in sense 2). 1. transitive. To record or film (someone or something) with a camera, esp. a video camera, camcorder, or webcam. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > make video recording of [verb (transitive)] videotape1957 video1960 videorecord1972 cam1991 1991 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 10 Feb. (Pacific Sunday section) 15/2 I figured out the reason I keep getting ‘cammed’. At my age there are those who feel that I might not be here much longer—so folks, let's get a record of her! 2003 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. Everyone seems to be camming these days and judging by the number of e-mails I receive asking about webcam software, I'm guessing the trend's here to stay. 2003 Salon.com (Nexis) 17 July [Her] nanny was cammed by a previous employer without her knowledge. 2019 @SecretCommando 13 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Dec. 2020) You could have simply cammed them directly from the tv screen into the camera app of an iPhone. 2. intransitive. To perform sexual or erotic acts on a live webcam broadcast, esp. as a type of sex work. Also (and earliest) transitive: to perform for (a person) in this way. Cf. webcam v. 2, camming n.² 2. ΚΠ 2004 National Post (Canada) 3 July t1/4 Now, it seems, explicitly ‘camming’ someone online has become as common as a handshake. 2015 Stranger 10 June 16/2 I asked two highly successful Seattle models..about what first motivated them to cam. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas CAM CAM n. Cell Biology cellular (or cell) adhesion molecule. ΚΠ 1976 U. Rutishauser et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73 580/2 The problem..is to relate the antigenic determinants on F2 to a cell surface molecule... These determinants are present on a cell adhesion molecule (CAM). 1994 Arthritis News Dec. 12/1 The white cells..link the CAMs on their surface to ICAM-1 molecules on the surface of the cells in distress. 2004 E. T. Stoeckli in J. Behrens & W. J. Nelson Cell Adhesion 392 Cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF CAMs) were discovered 25 years ago based on their role in cell–cell adhesion. extracted from Cn. CAM CAM n. computer-aided (or -assisted) manufacturing (or manufacture). ΚΠ 1971 WESCON Techn. Papers 15 xxii. ii. 3/2 Any CAD/CAM process chosen..should be capable of producing the necessary documentation required to satisfy and expediate all departmental functions required for manufacturing the end item. 1995 N. Valley Business Jrnl. (Nexis) Jan. 12 [The design]..goes into [a] computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) program, which is then downloaded into a CNC (computer numerical control) machine for milling. 2012 G. B. Shelly et al. Discovering Computers xii. 471 CAM production equipment includes software-controlled drilling, lathe, welding, and milling machines. extracted from Cn. < n.¹1777n.²1788n.³1875n.⁴1943n.⁵1969adj.adv.1579v.¹?1748v.²1991 as lemmas
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