
jam
n 1: preserve of crushed fruit
2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: {fix},
{hole}, {mess}, {muddle}, {pickle}, {kettle of fish}]
3: a dense crowd of people [syn: {crush}, {press}]
4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy
for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic
devices or systems [syn: {jamming}, {electronic jamming}]
v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}]
2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to
the floor"
3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: {crush}]
4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the
Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this
station" [syn: {block}]
5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
{jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}, {wad}]
7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: {obstruct},
{obturate}, {impede}, {occlude}, {block}, {close up}]
[ant: {free}]
[also: {jamming}, {jammed}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0