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jam vs stop

stop vs jam

jam and stop both are nouns.

jam and stop both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
jam Yes No Yes No
stop Yes No Yes No
As verbs, stop is a hyponym of jam; that is, stop is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than jam:
  • jam: block passage through
  • stop: render unsuitable for passage
Other hyponyms of jam include block off, blockade, barricade, barricado, barricade, asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocate, tie up, dam, dam up, block out, screen, earth up, land up, bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul.
jam (noun) stop (noun)
deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems the act of stopping something
preserve of crushed fruit a brief stay in the course of a journey
a dense crowd of people a restraint that checks the motion of something
informal terms for a difficult situation an obstruction in a pipe or tube
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the event of something ending
a spot where something halts or pauses
the state of inactivity following an interruption
jam (verb) stop (verb)
interfere with or prevent the reception of signals prevent completion
crowd or pack to capacity stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
get stuck and immobilized hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
block passage through seize on its way
crush or bruise render unsuitable for passage
press tightly together or cram come to a halt, stop moving
push down forcibly cause to end
interrupt a trip
stop from happening or developing
put an end to a state or an activity
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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