jam
Noun
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subtypes: strawberry jam, strawberry preserves - made with strawberries
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is a type of: difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcomesubtypes: dog's breakfast, dog's dinner - a poor job; a mess
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is a type of: crowd - a large number of things or people considered togethersubtypes: snarl-up, traffic jam - a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move
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is a type of: ecm, electronic countermeasures - electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrumsubtypes:
- barrage jamming - electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously
- selective jamming, spot jamming - electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency
same as: electronic jamming, jamming
Verb
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is a type of: crowd, crowd together - to gather together in large numbers
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same as: crush
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subtypes:
- barrage jam - jam an entire frequency spectrum
- point jam - jam a narrow band of frequencies
- spot jam - jam a single frequency
- blanket jam - jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications
same as: block -
is a type of: malfunction, misfunction - fail to function or function improperly
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is a type of: stuff - cram into a cavityverb group: cram - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
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subtypes:
- block off, blockade - obstruct access to
- barricade, barricado - block off with barricades
- barricade - prevent access to by barricading
- asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate - impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- tie up - restrain from moving or operating normally
- dam, dam up - obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
- block out, screen - prevent from entering
- earth up, land up - block with earth, as after a landslide
- bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop - render unsuitable for passage
- back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul - become or cause to become obstructed
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