cam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cam"

Translingual

Symbol

cam

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cèmuhî.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cèmuhî terms

English

 cam (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kæm]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

PIE word
*ǵómbʰos

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.

Noun

cam (plural cams)

2. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
   1. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
   • 1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:

     Cum doun t' cam' soid

4. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

Derived terms

• cam band
• cambelt
• cambox
• cam out
• camshaft
• camwheel
• heart cam
• overhead cam
• rock cam
• twincam
• twin-cam
• variable cam timing

Descendants

• → Welsh: cam

Translations

mechanical part

Chinese: Mandarin: 凸輪 / 凸轮 (zh) (tūlún) Czech: vačka f Danish: kam (da) Dutch: nok (nl) m or f Esperanto: kamo Finnish: epäkesko (fi), nokka (fi), nostovarsi French: came (fr) f German: Nocken (de) m Italian: camma (it) f Japanese: カム (ja) (kamu) Korean: 캠 (kaem) Portuguese: came (pt) m, camo m Romanian: camă (ro) f Russian: эксце́нтрик (ru) m (ekscéntrik), кулачо́к (ru) m (kulačók) Slovak: vačka f Spanish: leva (es) f Swedish: kam (sv) c Welsh: cam (cy) m

See also

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Spring-loaded camming device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Clipping of camera.

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

cam (bootleg)

Wikipedia

cam (plural cams)

2. (informal) Camera.
4. (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.

Derived terms

• beachcam
• bibcam
• birdcam
• bodycam
• camback
• camboy
• camcorder
• camgirl
• cammer
• camming
• camphone
• camsite
• camwhore
• camwhoring
• copcam
• crittercam
• cubcam
• dashcam
• dash cam
• face cam
• facecam
• fancam
• fishcam
• handicam
• headcam
• helmetcam
• holocam
• hovercam
• kiss cam
• minicam
• nanny cam
• nanocam
• nestcam
• netcam
• phonecam
• recam
• security cam
• shakycam
• skycam
• SnorriCam
• spycam
• Steadicam
• stump cam
• trailcam
• videocam
• webcam

Translations

camera — see camera

a bootleg recording from cinema

Polish: kinówka (pl) f

Verb

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3

Adverb

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

1. Alternative form of kam.

Further reading

• “cam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

See also

• slick cam

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac-, Mac., mac

Achang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam (“hair”).

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /cʰam˧/
• (Luxi) [tsʰam³⁵]

Noun

cam

1. hair on the head

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎, Payap University, page 15

Acholi

Verb

cam

1. to eat, to consume

Noun

cam

1. food

References

• Blackings, Mairi John (2009), Acholi English – English Acholi Dictionary‎, Munich: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 22