jammed

See also: jamm'ed

English

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.

   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.

Related terms

• jammed up

 

Translations

pertaining to something which is stuck

• 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
• 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^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland