English Explanatory Dictionary

cam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. A ridge or mound of earth.
  4. A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
noun
  1. Camera.
  2. A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
verb
  1. To go on webcam with someone.
adv
  1. Alternative form of kam.
name
  1. A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
  2. A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
  3. A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.
noun
  1. Initialism of complementary and alternative medicine.
  2. Initialism of common area maintenance.
  3. Initialism of computer-aided manufacturing.
  4. Initialism of cockpit area microphone.
  5. Initialism of cell-adhesion molecule.
  6. Initialism of crassulacean acid metabolism.
  7. Initialism of contract air mail (often followed by the route number, eg, CAM 21).
  8. Initialism of content-addressable memory.
name
  1. Abbreviation of Campeche: a state of Mexico.

Pronunciation

[kæm] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cam.wav /kæm/

Word forms

cam cams camming cammed more cam most cam

Etymology

PIE word *ǵómbʰos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos Proto-Germanic *kambaz Proto-West Germanic ᚲᚨᛒᚨ Proto-West Germanic *kamb Old Dutch *kamb Middle Dutch kamp Dutch kamder. English cam Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.

Synonyms

Granta

Related words

slick cam

Derived words

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 凸輪 /凸轮 Czech: vačka Danish: kam Dutch: nok Esperanto: kamo Finnish: epäkesko Finnish: nokka Finnish: nostovarsi French: came German: Nocken Italian: camma Japanese: カム Korean: 캠 Portuguese: came Portuguese: camo Romanian: camă Russian: эксце́нтрик Russian: кулачо́к Slovak: vačka Spanish: leva Swedish: kam Welsh: cam
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