» james

Words people most associate with “james”:

  1. bond,
  2. king,
  3. dean,
  4. bible,
  5. name

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Noun (10 meanings)

1. a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513).

James, James IV

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  • Stuart (noun) - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714

2. the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701).

James, James II

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  • Stuart (noun) - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714

3. the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625).

James, James I, King James, King James I

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  • Stuart (noun) - the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714

4. United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882).

James, Jesse James

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5. United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910).

James, William James

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6. writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916).

James, Henry James

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  • writer, author (noun) - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

7. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament.

James, Saint James, St. James, Saint James the Apostle, St. James the Apostle

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  • Apostle (noun) - (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel
  • saint (noun) - a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
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  • New Testament (noun) - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation

8. a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads.

James, James River

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  • river (noun) - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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9. a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri.

James, James River

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  • river (noun) - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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10. a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle.

Epistle of James, James

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  • Epistle (noun) - a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle
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  • New Testament (noun) - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation

» jam

Words people most associate with “jam”:

  1. jelly,
  2. strawberry,
  3. jar,
  4. toast,
  5. butter

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Noun (4 meanings)

1. preserve of crushed fruit.

jam

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2. informal terms for a difficult situation.

fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish

Examples:
  • “he got into a terrible fix”,
  • “he made a muddle of his marriage”
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  • difficulty (noun) - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
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3. a dense crowd of people.

crush, jam, press

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  • crowd (noun) - a large number of things or people considered together
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  • traffic jam, snarl-up (noun) - a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move
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4. deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems.

jamming, electronic jamming, jam

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  • electronic countermeasures, ECM (noun) - electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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  • to jam, block (verb) - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

Verb (7 meanings)

1. press tightly together or cram.

to throng, mob, pack, pile, jam

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  • “The crowd packed the auditorium”
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2. push down forcibly.

to jam

Example:
  • “The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor”
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  • to push, force (verb) - move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

3. crush or bruise.

to jam, crush

Example:
  • “jam a toe”
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  • to bruise, contuse (verb) - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of

4. interfere with or prevent the reception of signals.

to jam, block

Examples:
  • “Jam the Voice of America”,
  • “block the signals emitted by this station”
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  • to barrage jam (verb) - jam an entire frequency spectrum
  • to blanket jam (verb) - jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications
  • to point jam (verb) - jam a narrow band of frequencies
  • to spot jam (verb) - jam a single frequency
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  • jamming, electronic jamming, jam (noun) - deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

5. get stuck and immobilized.

to jam

Example:
  • “the mechanism jammed”
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6. crowd or pack to capacity.

to jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad

Example:
  • “the theater was jampacked”
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  • to stuff (verb) - cram into a cavity
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  • to cram (verb) - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled

7. block passage through.

to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up

Example:
  • “obstruct the path”
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  • obturator (noun) - a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
  • occlusive (adjective) - tending to occlude