Necessity vs Jam - What's the difference?
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
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That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
* 1804 , Wordsworth,
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
(legal) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act .
(legal, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
(countable) A difficult situation.
* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)
(countable) Blockage, congestion.
An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
(climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
(UK) luck.
(mining)
To get something stuck in a confined space.
To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"
To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
(music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
(roller derby) To attempt to score points.
(nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
Necessity is a related term of jam.
As a noun necessity
is the quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.As a symbol jam is
the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for jamaica.necessity
Noun
(necessities)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}
- Love and compassion are necessities , not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice,
- 'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold:
- This neither is its courage nor its choice,
- But its necessity in being old.
Synonyms
* (state of being necessary) inevitability, certaintyAntonyms
* (state of being necessary) impossibility, contingency * (something indispensable) luxuryDerived terms
* make a virtue of necessityExternal links
* *Anagrams
*jam
English
, a type of jam, spread on a piece of breadEtymology 1
Noun
- I’m in a jam right now. Can you help me out?
- She was married when we first met
- Soon to be divorced
- I helped her out of a jam , I guess
- But I used a little too much force.
- A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.
- a jam of logs in a river
- He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.
- Toughie scored four points in that jam .
- I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.
- He's got more jam than Waitrose.
Synonyms
* (sweet mixture of fruit) conserve, (US) jelly, preserve * See alsoDerived terms
* jamjar * jammy * jam band * jam roly poly * jam sandwich * jam session * jam tart * jam tomorrow * log jam * Murrumbidgee jam * pearl jam * power jam * toe jam * traffic jam * want jam on it * climbing: ** hand jam ** finger jam ** fist jam ** foot jam ** pinkie jam ** ring jam ** thumb-down jamSee also
* jelly * marmaladeVerb
(jamm)- My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.
- Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.
- I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.
- They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.
- The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.
- A single accident can jam the roads for hours.
- Jones was jammed by the pitch.
- When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.
- Toughie jammed four times in the second period.