Dictionary Entry
clamp
clamp is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
- 2noun
An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
- 3noun
A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
- 4noun
One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
- 5noun
A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
- 6noun
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
- 7noun
A mollusk. See Clam.
- 8transitive verb
To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
- 9transitive verb
To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
- 10noun
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
- 11intransitive verb
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
- 12noun
a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
Synonyms
- 13verb
impose or inflict forcefully
"The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital"
- 14verb
fasten or fix with a clamp
"clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened"
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