pam

/pæm/

noun 10name 3verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

last, outrageous, used, wrought

The last pam decision by the committee left everyone feeling frustrated and misunderstood.

VERB + PAM

confirm, following, talk

I'll confirm pam following the meeting next Tuesday morning.

PAM + NOUN

amanda's, attorney, bondi, panorama, roland, week

Pam's attorney advised her to settle the case out of court.

PREP.

in, into, on

She stirred the flour into the pan and mixed it with the butter.

ADV.

immediately

Definitions

noun

The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.

A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

noun

A panorama.

The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

verb

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;

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.

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Example Bank

The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, […]

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