Jammed vs Jammer - What's the difference?
jammed | jammer |
Stuck.
Overcrowded; congested
(jam)
Any device used to jam radio reception.
A form of swimwear used by athletes.
* 2001 , Newsgroups: rec.sport.swimming, Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:39:52 GMT, Subject: Re: Laying out in Myrtle Beach
* 2006 , David West, 140.6 - One Man's Journey: The Metamorphosis from Casual Runner , page 62
* 2007 , Janet Evans, Janet Evans' Total Swimming , page 5
A device (e.g. a jumar) which will slide along a rope in one direction but not the other, used in rock-climbing, caving etc.
(roller derby) A player in who attempts to score points by making their way past other players.
As an adjective jammed
is stuck.As a verb jammed
is (jam).As a noun jammer is
any device used to jam radio reception.jammed
English
Adjective
(head)- The window is jammed shut.
- How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
- The printer is still jammed'''. Make sure that all the '''jammed paper is removed.
- The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed .
- ''These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
- A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.
Verb
(head)jammer
English
(jammers)Noun
(en noun)- As for me, I wear a dragsuit to the pool, and regular trunks to the beach. In competitions, I wear speedos, but am more comfortable in "jammers ", which is a half-bodysuit.
- In early May, I was starting to swim in jammers which I was not accustomed to or comfortable wearing. I have always thought that wearing spandex is an earned privelege, not a birthright.
- Enter jammers' in the mid-1990s. ' Jammers have the look of biking shorts with skin-tight Lycra covering the thigh to mid-thigh or the knee, depending on the cut.