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Cam
/[kæm]/ adv, name, noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Alternative form of kam. alt-of, alternative
Proper Noun
- 1 A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
- 2 A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.
"Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball."
- 3 Abbreviation of Campeche: a state of Mexico. abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
- 5 A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
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 Camera. informal
- 3 Initialism of complementary and alternative medicine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion wordnet
- 5 A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.; A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
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- 6 A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
- 7 Initialism of common area maintenance. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 8 A ridge or mound of earth. UK, dialectal
"Cum doun t' cam' soid"
- 9 Initialism of computer-aided manufacturing. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 10 A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
- 11 Initialism of cockpit area microphone. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 12 Initialism of cell-adhesion molecule. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 13 Initialism of crassulacean acid metabolism. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 14 Initialism of contract air mail (often followed by the route number, eg, CAM 21). US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
- 15 Initialism of content-addressable memory. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
- 1 To go on webcam with someone.
Etymology
Etymology 1
PIE word *ǵómbʰos 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.
Etymology 2
Clipping of camera.
Etymology 3
Clipping of camera.
Etymology 4
From Old English Granta, Grantebryċġ, the former name of the modern Cambridge, ultimately from a Celtic word for "crooked," Proto-Celtic *kambos, from late Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”), shared with Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós).
Etymology 5
Shortening.
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