pam

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See also: Pam, PAM, päm, and рат

Translingual

Symbol

pam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kapampangan.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæm/
  • Rhymes: -æm
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Etymology 1

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

Noun

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

  1. The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
  2. A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of panorama.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

  1. (dated, photography) A panorama.
    • 1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography, volume 28, page 240:
      The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

Verb

pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)

  1. (dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
    • 1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331:
      In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;
    • 1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk:
      The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
    • 1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:
      At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
    • 1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2:
      The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.
    • 1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:
      The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.
    • 1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:
      This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.

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Etymology 3

Generic use of PAM.

Noun

pam

  1. (US) Cooking spray.

Etymology 4

From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

  1. (historical, dated) Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).

Anagrams

Amanab

Noun

pam

  1. bone spoon

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palm, from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm and palma. Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish palmo.

Pronunciation

Noun

pam m (plural pams)

  1. span, handspan, an informal unit of measure based on a hand's width
  2. (historical) a traditional unit of length that is the 1 / 8 part of a cana; ~20 cm
    Holonym: cana

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References

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

pam!

  1. bam! bang!

Galician

Noun

pam m (plural pans, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of pan

References

  • “pam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English pump.

Pronunciation

Noun

pam

  1. pump

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pam

  1. pump
  2. (anatomy) heart

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm.

Pronunciation

Noun

pam (nominative plural pams)

  1. palm, palm tree

Declension

declension of pam
singular plural
nominative pam pams
genitive pama pamas
dative pame pames
accusative pami pamis
vocative 1 o pam! o pams!
predicative 2 pamu pamus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

pa (“what”) +‎ am (“for”)

Pronunciation

Adverb

pam

  1. why
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