Cam

/[kæm]/ adv, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of kam. alt-of, alternative
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
  2. 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. 3
    Abbreviation of Campeche: a state of Mexico. abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
  5. 5
    A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
Noun
  1. 1
    A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. 2
    Camera. informal
  3. 3
    Initialism of complementary and alternative medicine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
  2. 7
    Initialism of common area maintenance. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 8
    A ridge or mound of earth. UK, dialectal

    "Cum doun t' cam' soid"

  4. 9
    Initialism of computer-aided manufacturing. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 10
    A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
  6. 11
    Initialism of cockpit area microphone. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  7. 12
    Initialism of cell-adhesion molecule. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  8. 13
    Initialism of crassulacean acid metabolism. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  9. 14
    Initialism of contract air mail (often followed by the route number, eg, CAM 21). US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
  10. 15
    Initialism of content-addressable memory. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
  1. 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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