Betekenis van jam In het Nederlands

• 0 a sweet, soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it. It is eaten on bread:

  • strawberry/raspberry jam

  • jam sandwiches

• 1 →  traffic jam :

  • We were stuck in a jam for two hours.

• 2 something that is stuck in a machine, or that prevents the parts of a machine from moving:

  • She fed the documents into the machine making sure that there were no paper jams.

• 3 a difficult situation:

  • I'm in a jam - could you lend me some money till next week?

  • How are we going to get ourselves out of this jam?

• 4 a situation in which a lot of people are in a small space:

  • It's a real jam inside - it took me ten minutes to get to the bar.

• 5 to be, or make something, unable to move:

  • The door jammed behind me and I couldn't get out.

  • [ + obj + adj ] He jammed the window open with a piece of wood.

  • Foreign radio broadcasts were regularly jammed.

• 6 to play jazz or rock music with other people informally without planning it or practising together

• 7 to push something forcefully or with difficulty into something else:

  • He jammed the boxes into the back of the car.

• 8 to fill a place completely:

  • The centre of town was jammed with cars moving at a very slow pace.

  • The motorway was jammed solid (= the traffic could not move) all morning.

• 9 to push something hard with sudden effort:

  • [ M ] She jammed on the brakes when the light turned red.

• 10 to pack tightly into a small space:

  • He jammed the boxes into the trunk of the car.

• 11 to become stuck and unable to move, or to be stuck in something:

  • [ I ] My key jammed in the lock.

  • [ T ] Paper was jamming the printer.

• 12 to play popular music informally with other people, without planning it or practicing together:

  • He once jammed with Charlie Parker.

• 13 a difficult situation:

  • She expects her parents to bail her out whenever she gets in a jam.

• 14 a soft, sweet food made by cooking fruit with sugar:

  • strawberry/raspberry jam on toast