jam

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English - Vietnamese dictionary

jam /dʤæm/

• danh từ
  • mứt
  • real jam
    • (từ lóng) điều khoái trá, điều hết sức thú vị

• danh từ
  • sự kẹp chặt, sự ép chặt
  • sự ấn vào, sự tọng vào, sự nhồi nhét
  • đám đông chen chúc, đám đông tắc nghẽn
    • traffic jam: đường tắc nghẽn; giao thông tắc nghẽn
  • sự mắc kẹt, sự kẹt (máy...)
  • (thông tục) tình hình khó khăn, tình thế khó xử, hoàn cảnh bế tắc
  • (raddiô) nhiễu (lúc thu)

• ngoại động từ
  • ép chặt, kẹp chặt
    • to jam one's finger in the door: kẹp ngón tay ở cửa
  • ((thường) + into) ấn vào, tọng vào, nhồi nhét, nhồi chặt
  • làm tắc nghẽn (đường xá...)
  • (kỹ thuật) làm mắc kẹt, kẹt chặt, hãm kẹt lại; chêm, chèn
    • to jam the brake: hãm kẹt phanh lại
  • (raddiô) phá, làm nhiễu (một chương trình phát thanh, làn sóng...)

• nội động từ
  • bị chêm chặt, mắc kẹt, kẹt chặt (bộ phận máy...)
  • bị ép chặt, bị xếp chật ních, bị nhồi chặt
  • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) ứng tác, ứng tấu (nhạc ja)

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Advanced English dictionary

noun, verb
+ noun
sweet food
1 [U, C] a thick sweet substance made by boiling fruit with sugar, often sold in JARS and spread on bread: strawberry jam + recipes for jams and preserves + (BrE) a jam doughnut
Compare: JELLY, MARMALADE
many people / vehicles
2 [C] a situation in which it is difficult or impossible to move because there are so many people or vehicles in one particular place: The bus was delayed in a five-mile jam. + As fans rushed to leave, jams formed at all the exits.
See also - TRAFFIC JAM
Idioms: be in a jam (informal) to be in a difficult situation
jam tomorrow (BrE, informal) good things that are promised for the future but never happen: They refused to settle for a promise of jam tomorrow.
more at MONEY
+ verb (-mm-)
push with force
1 [VN +adv./prep.] to push sth somewhere with a lot of force: He jammed his fingers in his ears. + A stool had been jammed against the door.
stop moving / working
2 ~ (sth) (up) to become unable to move or work; to make sth do this: [V] The photocopier keeps jamming up. + [VN] There's a loose part that keeps jamming the mechanism. + [V-ADJ] The valve has jammed shut. + [VN-ADJ] He jammed the door open with a piece of wood.
put into small space
3 [+adv./prep.] to put sb/sth into a small space where there is very little room to move: [VN] Six of us were jammed into one small car. + We were jammed together like sardines in a can. + The cupboards were jammed full of old newspapers. + [V] Nearly 1 000 students jammed into the hall.
See also - JAM-PACKED
fill with people / things
4 [VN] ~ sth (up) (with sb/sth) to fill sth with a large number of people or things so that it is unable to function as it should: Viewers jammed the switchboard with complaints.
radio broadcast
5 [VN] (technical) to send out radio signals to prevent another radio broadcast from being heard
play music
6 [V, VN] to play music with other musicians in an informal way without preparing or practising first
Idioms: jam on the brake(s)
jam the brake(s) on to operate the BRAKES on a vehicle suddenly and with force: The car skidded as he jammed on the brakes.

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Thesaurus dictionary

v.

1 cram, force, push, wedge, stuff, press, ram, squeeze, shove, pack, crowd:

We were jammed in so tightly that we couldn't move.

2 block, obstruct, congest, fill up, clog, plug, stop up:

The toilet is jammed with paper again.

3 slam, activate, actuate:

I jammed on the brakes.

n.

4 obstruction, blockage, blocking, block, congestion, tie-up, bottleneck, stoppage:

She was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour.

5 crush, squeeze, crowd, mob, swarm, multitude, throng, mass, horde, pack, press:

You wouldn't believe the jam of football fans at the cup final!

6 trouble, difficulty, predicament, quandary, dilemma, Colloq bind, fix, hole, pickle, hot water, (tight) spot, scrape:

Harry helped me out of a jam once, and I won't forget it.

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Collocation

ADJ.

QUANT.

VERB + JAM

JAM + NOUN

PHRASES

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Concise dictionary

jammed|jamming|jamsdʒæm
noun
+preserve of crushed fruit
+informal terms for a difficult situation
+a dense crowd of people
+deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
+press tightly together or cram
+push down forcibly
+crush or bruise
+interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
+get stuck and immobilized
+crowd or pack to capacity
+block passage through

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