jammed

See also: jamm'ed

English

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Adjective

jammed

1. Stuck.

   The window is jammed shut.

   How to treat a jammed finger or toe.

   The printer is still jammed. Make sure that all the jammed paper is removed.

   The ship was jammed between two rocks.

2. Overcrowded; congested.

   Synonyms: jam-packed, jam rammed, packed, packed to the gills, rammed

   Hypernyms: busy, crowded

   Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.

   These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.

   A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.

3. (of radio signals) Rendered unusable by intentional interference.

   All their broadcasts are jammed.

   The jammed programming is being distributed on USB sticks instead.

Derived terms

• unjammed

Related terms

• jammed up

Translations

pertaining to something which is stuck

Esperanto: (please verify) fiksiĝis Finnish: jumissa (fi) German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt (de), eingequetscht (de) Italian: bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

overcrowded; congested

Danish: propfuld, smækfuld Dutch: overvol (nl), propvol (nl) Faroese: sprenfullur German: überfüllt (de), verstopft (de), proppenvoll (de) Icelandic: sneisafullur (is) Italian: affollato (it), trafficato (it) ((about roads)) Norwegian: proppfull, stappfull Swedish: överfull (sv)

Verb

jammed

1. simple past and past participle of jam

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *jāmētēk.

Verb

jammed

1. die

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland