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pam

/pæm/

pam noun: the jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards. Also the alternative form of palmo.

Noun (1)

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

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

Noun (2)

pam (plural pams)

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

Verb

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

  1. (dated) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
    • 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, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331
    • 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.1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk

Noun (3)

pam

  1. (US) Cooking spray.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PAM

PAM

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Policy Analysis Market.

Noun (4) capitalized: PAM

PAM (countable and uncountable, plural PAMs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of power amplitude modulation.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of pluggable authentication module.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.
  4. (abbreviation, acronym, space flight) Acronym of payload assist module.
  5. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of polycatenated architected material

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pam

Pam

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.
    • The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration.2025 February 4, Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN
  2. (UK, historical, slang) Nickname for Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.
    • In October 1865, the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, died in office two days before his 81st birthday. 'Old Pam' had been a member of every government since 1807, […]2004, Matthew J. B. Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth, Memory and Memorials, page 64

Also used as

pam is also the alternative form of palmo.

pam meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

pam in Hindi

पैम

pam in Marathi

पॅम

pam in Urdu

پی اے ایم

pam in Bengali

প্যাম
More languagesFewer languages
pam in Telugu
పామ్
pam in Punjabi
ਪੀ. ਏ. ਐੱਮ, ਪੀ. ਏ. ਐਮ
pam in Gujarati
પી. એ. એમ
pam in Nepali
पाम, प्याम, प्याम गर्न

Examples of pam in a sentence

  • 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.1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:
  • The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:
  • 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.1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:

All 11 example sentences with pam

Forms of pam

Noun
pluralpams
pluralPAMs
Verb
third-person singular presentpams
present participlepamming
past participlepammed
pastpammed

Plural of pam: pams

Origin of pam

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

Probably alteration of panorama.

Generic use of PAM.

Words formed from pam

Words that rhyme with pam

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Questions about pam

What does pam mean?
Pam means the jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
What is pam in Hindi?
Pam in Hindi is पैम. See Pam meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pam in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is pam?
Pam can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pam?
Pam is pronounced /pæm/.
What is the plural of pam?
The plural of pam is pams.

Words near pam in the dictionary

  1. Palæstinian
  2. Palæstinians
  3. palæstra
  4. palæstræ
  5. Palézieux
  6. pam
  7. pam off
  8. pama
  9. Pama-Maric
  10. Pama-Nyungan
  11. Pama-Nyunganist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pam (page history and authors); PAM (page history and authors); Pam (page history and authors); pam (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pam (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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