Clam vs Claim - What's the difference?
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A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (, a huge East Indian bivalve.
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A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(US, slang) A dollar (usually used in the plural). Possibly originating from the term wampum.
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
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To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clamminess; moisture
* Carlyle
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
* L'Estrange
A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
To demand ownership of.
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
* John Locke
To proclaim.
To call or name.
As nouns the difference between clam and claim
is that clam is a bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (species: Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (species: Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the species: Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve while claim is a demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).As verbs the difference between clam and claim
is that clam is to dig for clams while claim is to demand ownership of.clam
English
(wikipedia clam)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams' thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. ' Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
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Verb
(clamm)Derived terms
* American jackknife clam * Atlantic jackknife clam * bamboo clam * clam chowder * clamshell * clam up * giant clam * piss clam * razor clamSee also
* clammyEtymology 2
Verb
(clamm)- (Nares)
Etymology 3
Noun
- The clam of death.
Verb
(clamm)- (Dryden)
- A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again.
Anagrams
* ----claim
English
Alternative forms
* claym (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. SeeVerb
(en verb)- We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
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