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Noun james has 7 senses
- James, Jesse James - United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
--1 is a kind of criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
- James, William James - United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
--2 is a kind of psychologist; philosopher
- James, Henry James - writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
--3 is a kind of writer, author
- James, Saint James, St. James, Saint James the Apostle, St. James the Apostle - (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
--4 is a kind of Apostle; saint
- James, James River - a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
--5 is a kind of river
--5 is a part of Virginia, Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA
- James, James River - a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
--6 is a kind of river
--6 is a part of
- Epistle of James, James - a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
--7 is a kind of book
--7 is a part of New Testament
Verb jam has 7 senses
- throng, mob, pack, pile, jam - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
--1 is one way to crowd, crowd together
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- jam - push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
--2 is one way to push, force
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- jam, crush - crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
--3 is one way to bruise, contuse
Sample sentence:
Did he jam his foot?
- jam, block - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
--4 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- jam - get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
--5 is one way to malfunction, misfunction
Sample sentence:
They want to jam the doors
- jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
--6 is one way to stuff
Sample sentence:
They jam the books into the box
- obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
--7 is one way to impede, hinder
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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