pam

pam

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

• IPA^(key): /pæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

• Audio (Southern England)

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

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.

Probably alteration of panorama.

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.

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.

• pam off

Generic use of PAM.

pam

1. (US) Cooking spray.

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

pam (plural pams)

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

• AMP, APM, MAP, MPA, amp, map, p.m.a., pma

pam

1. bone spoon

• palma

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈpam]

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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• “pam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑm/, [ˈpɑ̝m]
• Rhymes: -ɑm
• Syllabification^(key): pam

pam!

1. bam! bang!

pam m (plural pans, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of pan

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

Borrowed from English pump.

• IPA^(key): /pam/

pam

1. pump

From English pump.

pam

1. pump
2. (anatomy) heart

Borrowed from English palm.

• IPA^(key): /pam/

pam (nominative plural pams)

1. palm, palm tree

• paham (literary)

pa (“what”) +‎ am (“for”)

• IPA^(key): /pam/

pam

1. why