Cam

Wikipedia

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• IPA: [kæm], SAMPA: /k{m/
• Rhymes: -æm

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Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“‘cog of a wheel; originally, comb’”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“‘cog wheel’”))

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Cam (plural Cams)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. (rock-climbing) A spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

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• overhead cam

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• Patrono:Pedia

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• climbing cam

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From camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“‘dark chamber’”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara), “‘vaulted chamber’”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“‘to arch’”)

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Wikipedia Cam (plural Cams)

1. (informal) The shortened form of camera

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• camcorder
• webcam

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to Cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone

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• Cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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• AMC, CMA, mac, Mac, Mac., MAC, mca

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cam

1. food

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English cam, from camera

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Cam f. (plural Cams)

1. cam (device for filming)

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• AMC

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IrishModificar

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• (Munster) IPA: [kaumˠ]
• (Connacht) IPA: [kɑːmˠ] (Galway); IPA: [kamˠ] (Mayo)
• (Ulster) IPA: [kamˠ]

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Cam

1. crooked

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Patrono:Ga-adj-1

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cam	cham	gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Cam f.

1. glass (substance)

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Latin quam

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Cam

1. approximately, a little

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• IPA: /kaːm/

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cam

1. crooked, askew

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First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	cam	cham	cama
Vocative	chaim	chaim	cama
Genitive	chaim	chaim/caime	cam
Dative	cham	chaim	cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

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From Persian جام (jâm).

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• IPA: /dʒam/

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cam

1. A glass

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PronunciationModificar

• SAMPA: /ka:m/
• IPA: /kaːm/
• SAMPROSA: M[kaːm]

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Cam [[Category:Patrono:Vi nouns|Cam]]

1. ([quả / trái] cam) The fruit orange

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• cam sành - a Vietnamese citrus fruit similar to an orange
• cây cam - orange tree

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Cam [[Category:Patrono:Vi adjectives|Cam]]

1. made of oranges
2. ([màu] cam) of the colour orange

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• nước cam - orange juice (literally: "orange water")
• sách màu cam - orange book (literally: "orange-coloured book")

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