tam
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 3
/tæm/
Definition of tam
10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.
“Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.”
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noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.
“Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.”
- Synonym of picul, a unit of weight, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of tense, aspect, and mood.
“[…] then it would make sense to view Australian past irrealises as TAM forms combining a modal stative predicate (conveying e.g. a capacity, expectation, or desire state) with a past imperfective content.”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of total addressable/available market.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of technology acceptance model.
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Tamaulipas: a state of Mexico.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Transantarctic Mountains: a mountain range in Antarctica.
- A diminutive of the female given name Tamara.
- A diminutive of the female given name Tamsin.
- A surname.
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Etymology
Ellipsis of tam o'shanter.
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