I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a traffic jam (= a line of cars that have stopped, or are moving very slowly )
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She spent two hours sitting in a traffic jam.
apple/treacle/jam etc tart
jam session
jammed the switchboard (= there were too many calls for the switchboard to deal with )
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Hundreds of callers jammed the switchboard trying to win the tickets .
jam/paint/yoghurt etc pot
slam on/jam on/hit the brakes (= use them suddenly and with a lot of force )
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The car in front stopped suddenly and I had to slam on the brakes.
stuck in...traffic jam
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
traffic jam
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apricot
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Heat the apricot jam gently and brush over the cake.
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You combine yogurt with some mustard and some apricot jam .
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Breakfast had been fruit and coffee; she'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam .
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Brush cake with strained apricot jam and place marzipan on top.
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Press the apricot jam through a sieve and stir in one tablespoon of cold water.
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A sort of sponge, low and crusty and golden, which they ate with apricot jam .
jar
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A jam jar on top of the bottle seems to be the answer.
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Long gone are the days of the cane, worm and jam jar !
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Put the oil and vinegar in a jam jar or other salted container.
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Here's flowers in a jam jar .
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Crystals Fill two jam jars with water and stir five tablespoons of Epsom Salts into each jar.
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She felt as though her brain were clambering around her skull like a wasp trying to get out of a jam jar .
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She hoped that he would not find the jam jar too utilitarian, but he appeared to possess few vases.
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We could draw off a pint to fill a customer's empty jam jar .
log
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The fingers of her other hand stretched and pressed, but the log jam was centred just out of reach.
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The contrasurvival engram is to the dynamics like a log jam which dams a necessary river.
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Upriver came a rumble and boom like the dynamite explosions that broke up the log jams .
raspberry
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These include making wooden seeds for raspberry jam .
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Most volcanic rocks contain some phenocrysts - they are a bit like the pips in raspberry jam .
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Still maintaining the shape, sandwich all the pieces of cake together with some of the buttercream and raspberry jam .
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With a spoon, she scoured the crumbs from a used jar of raspberry jam .
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She'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad.
sandwich
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Loved peanut butter and jam sandwiches .
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He munched his jam sandwich and, between bites, belched.
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The Marmite and plum jam sandwiches were already curling on the trestle table under the walnut tree.
session
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Then on Sunday night all styles will merge in a monumental jam session .
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The action continues through Sunday with nightly jam sessions , raffles, and a Grande Finale Concert.
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Baker was first heard no record in a public jam session of 1941 and quickly established an unbeatable reputation in London clubs.
strawberry
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At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off.
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Since when do we put corn in strawberry jam ?
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The strawberry jam she'd made hadn't set, she couldn't even take a telephone message.
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The son was looking directly ahead out of the window stuffing himself with bread and peanut butter and strawberry jam .
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Layer together with whipped cream, strawberry jam and sliced fresh strawberries.
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Home-made strawberry jam is particularly delicious but there are plenty of recipes around which centre on this scrummy fruit.
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On a smaller plate set before Frankie was a sandwich made with thickly sliced bread, best butter and strawberry jam .
tart
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Harriet played in tennis doubles and her public school boyfriends crowded in to eat her jam tarts .
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Members dressed up as the characters from Alice in Wonderland and had jam tarts and sandwiches in the refreshments on offer.
traffic
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Otherwise every traffic jam will gradually vanish beneath a rising tide of its own foamy output.
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Look, Chief, you want to cause a traffic jam ?
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We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams .
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Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress.
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By the time we reached the Red Fort we had hit a traffic jam .
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Just look at these cabins, and you forget traffic jams , mortgages and mayhem back home.
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She had got stuck getting out of Belfast, and got lost trying to take a short cut round the traffic jam .
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Did anyone really do themselves any good by telling somebody off on the telephone or getting angry in a traffic jam ?
■ VERB
cause
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The council says the shift will improve safety, as the present system causes traffic jams and poor visibility.
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Look, Chief, you want to cause a traffic jam ?
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Its fleet of 3,500 lorries could cause a 30-mile traffic jam .
make
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Rhubarb is perfect with rich meats and makes superb jams , jellies, puddings and pies.
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A friend from a faraway city was visiting, and she decided to make jam .
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It is extremely simple to make - just warmed jam with a little water.
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And then she made mulberry jam .
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The first bite I take makes all the jam squirt out the side over my chin.
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So, for example, a preservative may be used in fruit which is used to make jam .
spread
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Trim the edges and spread over the jam .
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Serves 6 1 Spread the sponge with jam and cut into chunks.
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If she has toast she spreads it with jam or marmalade.
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There were scones that had been spread with butter and jam , spam sandwiches, marmalade sandwiches and egg sandwiches.
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Set aside one cake for the top and thinly spread the rest with jam .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheese/jam/cream etc puff
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Add a little cream puff goodie for dessert and no one will be late for dinner.
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He was courteous, but he did not feed him cream puffs .
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Makes about 19 cream puffs .&.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jam in the copy machine
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the time she's cleared the jam , they're in the outskirts of Bournemouth.
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In case we don't like the cake she brings half a tea-chest of biscuits and three different jams.
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Initial press reports on the Dec. 20 accident focused on how pilot errors got the crew into a navigational jam .
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Otherwise every traffic jam will gradually vanish beneath a rising tide of its own foamy output.
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Streets around the normally tranquil town of Morton in Marsh were sealed and long traffic jams built up.
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What Case can not promise his members is immediate respite from the jams.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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Anything that would grab the eye was jammed together to make the page frantically busy.
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The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.
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Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together .
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Locked side by side we squeezed fiercely, our sweaty temples jammed together , each trying to crush the other into submission.
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Boys were jammed together like rush-hour travellers on the Underground.
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Belowdecks, the crew was jammed together , 150 men to each open, windowless, poorly lighted, ill-ventilated bay.
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Their genes are jammed together and even overlap, with the end of one marking the start of the next.
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Connors and Banjo sat jammed together on the bench beside me.
up
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The ball-hitch mechanism seemed to have gone rusty and jammed up since it was last used.
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He was jammed up against something; there was something stuck in his craw.
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The drum was floating, jammed up against the Lock, thumping into the gates with each surge of the tide.
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Whenever he found himself praying, he knew he was at the very least jammed up inside, probably crazy.
■ NOUN
brake
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Most people naively imagine they will stop immediately when they jam on the brakes .
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When he jammed the brakes on she was better balanced.
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He jammed his brakes , and stopped his circling feet.
door
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Opening the executive case, he extracted a rubber wedge, jammed it under the door .
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The Whitsun visitors would follow the Easter ones; in no time at all the hotels would be jammed to the doors .
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Wegner said one possibility is that the impact jammed the door .
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Maybe then, just for an instant, she gave an irritated glance back at the jammed door .
switchboard
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Residents jammed the switchboard of city authorities asking whether it was safe in the area.
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Viewers jammed the Thames Television switchboard .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All-night jam sessions were common in Kansas City jazz clubs of the 1930s.
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All five boys jammed happily into the back seat.
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Crowds of supporters jammed the lobby.
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Just hold the door open while I jam a wedge under it.
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Kelly poured himself another glass of wine and jammed the cork back into the bottle.
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Matthews used to jam with drummer Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore.
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One pilot reported that his controls had jammed.
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Some guys are getting together tonight at Scott's to jam .
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The electronic equipment jams enemy radar signals.
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We were jamming with J.D. and Rich last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bollards are prone to sudden collapse, and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval.
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In his desperation to escape, he fumbled the lever and the door jammed partly open.
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Mark jams his under a cushion.
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Of course, the newspapers were filled with it, and the docks, railyards, and whorehouses were jammed with soldiers.
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The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
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The third time the clasp jammed.