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Jammed vs Clog - What's the difference?

jammed | clog |

As verbs the difference between jammed and clog

is that jammed is (jam) while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

As an adjective jammed

is stuck.

As a noun clog is

a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

jammed

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Stuck.
    • The window is jammed shut.
    How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
    The printer is still jammed'''. Make sure that all the '''jammed paper is removed.
    The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • Overcrowded; congested
    • Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed .
    ''These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
    A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jam)

    • clog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.