Meaning

6 senses
  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

  2. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

    A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

  3. (UK, dialectal)A ridge or mound of earth.

  4. A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

  5. (informal)Camera.

  6. A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.

More definitions
  • a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
  • a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Do you have a dash cam?

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  2. I installed a nanny cam.

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  3. I have a dashboard cam.

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  4. Yanni leaves the nanny cam on 24/7.

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  5. Tom turned his body cam off.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
mechanical part:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
mechanical part:

Origin

Clipping of camera.

Clipping of camera.

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Forms

plural: cams
Singularcam
Pluralcams

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River:River CamCam River

Word family

52 related words

See also

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