| 单词 | jam |
| 释义 | jam (once / 484 pages) 1vn 2vn 3n To jam is to squeeze something tightly into a space, the way your friends might jam themselves into your tiny car. You might have to jam an extra row of books onto your bookshelf when you run out of room. Another way to jam is to get stuck, and a jam can be a dense bunch of stuck people or things, like a traffic jam. If you play a musical instrument, you might jam, or casually improvise, with other musicians. And of course the jam you spread on your toast is a delicious, sweet fruit preserve. WORD FAMILYjam: jammed, jamming, jams+/jamming: jammings USAGE EXAMPLESCarey headlined the festivities in Times Square, where about a million revellers jammed in to greet the new year. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) There were 60 cars, and on either side of the traffic jam were all the extras’ cars. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) The costs primarily result from the meters breaking down due to coin jams. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v press tightly together or cram Syn|Hyper mob, pack, pile, throng crowd, crowd together to gather together in large numbers 2v crowd or pack to capacity Syn|Hyper chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad cram put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled stuff cram into a cavity 3v push down forcibly The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor Hyper force, push move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" 4v crush or bruise jam a toe Syn|Hyper crush bruise, contuse injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of 5v get stuck and immobilized the mechanism jammed Hyper malfunction, misfunction fail to function or function improperly 6n a dense crowd of people Syn|Hypo|Hyper crush, press snarl-up, traffic jam a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move gridlocka traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible crowd a large number of things or people considered together 7n informal terms for a difficult situation 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper fix, hole, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle dog's breakfast, dog's dinner a poor job; a mess difficulty a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 1v block passage through Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude disengage, free free or remove obstruction from block off, blockade obstruct access to barricade, barricadoblock off with barricades barricadeprevent access to by barricading asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocateimpair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of tie uprestrain from moving or operating normally dam, dam upobstruct with, or as if with, a dam block out, screenprevent from entering earth up, land upblock with earth, as after a landslide bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stoprender unsuitable for passage back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foulbecome or cause to become obstructed gum upstick together as if with gum block off, close off, shut offblock off the passage through shadeprotect from light, heat, or view closebar access to crap upbecome obstructed or chocked up block, choke up, lug, stuffobstruct silt, silt upbecome chocked with silt hinder, impede be a hindrance or obstacle to 2v interfere with or prevent the reception of signals Jam the Voice of America Syn|Hypo|Hyper block barrage jam jam an entire frequency spectrum point jamjam a narrow band of frequencies spot jamjam a single frequency blanket jamjam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt make a break in 3n deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper electronic jamming, jamming barrage jamming electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously selective jamming, spot jammingelectronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency ECM, electronic countermeasures electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum n preserve of crushed fruit Hypo|Hyper strawberry jam, strawberry preserves made with strawberries conserve, conserves, preserve, preserves fruit preserved by cooking with sugar |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。