Plight vs Jam - What's the difference?

Plight is a related term of jam.

As a noun plight

is a dire or unfortunate situation or plight can be responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril or plight can be (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

As a verb plight

is to expose to risk; to pledge or plight can be (obsolete) to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

As a symbol jam is

the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for jamaica.

plight

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A dire or unfortunate situation.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 4-2 Newcastle , passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. ¶ Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}

*2005 , Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist , :

*:Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.

*, II.8:

*:although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France .

(obsolete) Good health.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:

*:All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight , / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at pledge.

Noun

(en noun)

Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.

An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.

Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

One's office; duty; charge.

(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

* Shakespeare

that lord whose hand must take my plight

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To expose to risk; to pledge.

Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:

I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 3

Through (etyl), from (etyl) and Danish flette are probably unrelated.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

* Milton

A plighted garment of divers colors.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

* Spenser

Many a folded plight .

jam

English

, a type of jam, spread on a piece of bread

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

I’m in a jam right now. Can you help me out?

* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)

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.

(countable) Blockage, congestion.

A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.

a jam of logs in a river

An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.

(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.

He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.

(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.

(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.

Toughie scored four points in that jam .

(climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.

I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.

(UK) luck.

He's got more jam than Waitrose.

(mining)

Synonyms

* (sweet mixture of fruit) conserve, (US) jelly, preserve * See also

Derived 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 jam

Verb

(jamm)

To get something stuck in a confined space.

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.

To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.

They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.

The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.

To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"

A single accident can jam the roads for hours.

To block or confuse a broadcast signal.

(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

(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.

When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.

(roller derby) To attempt to score points.

Toughie jammed four times in the second period.

(nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Synonyms

* ram

Derived terms

* (to squeeze into a small space) jam-pack * jammer

Etymology 2

(etyl) or (etyl), meaning "garment, robe"; related to pajamas.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A kind of frock for children.

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