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 :
2 something that is stuck in a machine, or that prevents the parts of a machine from moving:
4 a situation in which a lot of people are in a small space:
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:
8 to fill a place completely:
11 to become stuck and unable to move, or to be stuck in something:
12 to play popular music informally with other people, without planning it or practicing together:
He once jammed with Charlie Parker.
14 a soft, sweet food made by cooking fruit with sugar:
strawberry/raspberry jam on toast
She won first prize for her raspberry jam at the Mitchell county fair.
Gooseberries are used for making pies and jam.
This last refers to states that are jammed between the external pressure of the global economy and internal forces of social change.
He was cordial and polite enough, but when he got into a jam with people, he became nasty.
He identified wedging and jamming conditions and recommended ways to avoid insertion failure.
中文繁体
食物, 果醬, 路上…
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食物, 果酱, 路上…
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mermelada, atasco, meter de golpe o a la fuerza…
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geleia, engarrafamento, congestionamento…
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ジャム, 交通渋滞, ~を押し込む…
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reçel, marmelat, trafikte araç sıkışıklığı…
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confiture [feminine], blocage [masculine], pétrin [masculine]…
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melmelada, embús, ficar de cop o a la força…
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