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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jam \Jam\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jammed} (j[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jamming}.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See {Champ}.]
1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in; to cram; as, rock fans jammed the theater for the concert.
The ship . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe.
2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. [Colloq.]
3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.
4. To block or obstruct by packing too much (people or objects) into; as, shoppers jammed the aisles during the fire sale. [PJC]
5. (Radio) To interfere with (a radio signal) by sending other signals of the same or nearby frequency; as, the Soviets jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts for years during the cold war. [PJC]
6. To cause to become nonfunctional by putting something in that blocks the movement of a part or parts; as, he jammed the drawer by putting in too many loose papers; he jammed the lock by trying to pick it. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
jammed \jammed\ adjective filled to capacity or overfilled; as, the auditorium was jammed to the rafters.
Syn: full, jam-packed, packed. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jammed See {jam}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jam
noun
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}]
verb
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}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jammed
adjective: filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" [syn: {jam-pawncked}, {packed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "jammed": aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained, chock-full, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, constipated, costive, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, crowding, delayed, delayed-action, dense, detained, distended, drenched, fast, fastened, filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, foul, fouled, full, glued, gluey, glutted, gorged, grounded, hard, heavy, held, held up, high and dry, hung up, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable, impermeable, in a bind, in abeyance, in profusion, in spate, inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, late, latish, lavish, massive, moored, moratory, never on time, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overdue, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, plugged, plugged up, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, retarded, rife, running over, satiated, saturated, secure, serried, set, slow, soaked, solid, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, taped, tardy, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tied, tight, transfixed, unpunctual, unready, untimely, viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged
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