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Noun jam has 4 senses

jam - preserve of crushed fruit
--₁ is a kind of conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves
--₁ has particulars: strawberry jam, strawberry preserves
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish - informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
--₂ is a kind of difficulty
--₂ has particulars: dog's breakfast, dog's dinner
crush, jam, press - a dense crowd of people
--₃ is a kind of crowd
--₃ has particulars: traffic jam, snarl-up
Derived form: verb jam₆
jamming, electronic jamming, jam - deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
--₄ is a kind of electronic countermeasures, ECM
--₄ has particulars: barrage jamming; spot jamming, selective jamming
Derived form: verb jam₄

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

Derived forms: noun jam₄, noun jamming₁
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

Derived form: noun jam₃
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