Clam

Definition: Clam

Clam

Noun

1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.

2. (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.

3. Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams.

Verb

1. Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clam" was first used: sometime around 1500. (references)

Computing

Literature

Mining

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CLAM

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Synonyms: Clam

Food

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Pleasure

Happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; Verb: joyful; (in spirits); hedonic.

Crosswords: Clam

French (clam), Latin (by fraud, concealed, covertly, in secret, privately, secret from, secretly, stealthily., unknown to, without the knowledge of).

New England Clam Chowder (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey and Tom Shadyac.)

In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

No clam chowder, thank you. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

We'll build a giant clam cannon (Codename: Kids Next Door; writing credit: Mr. Warburton; Tom Warburton)

Tale of Bearded Clam (1971)

Pink Clam (1986)

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Books

• How to Draw a Clam (reference)

• Little Clam (reference)

• The Angry Clam (reference)

• The Clam Lake Papers (reference)

• The Clam Plate Orgy: And Other Subliminal Techniques for Manipulating Your Behavior (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Dreamboy and the Clam (reference)

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Music

• Clam Dip & Other Delights (reference)

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High Tech

• AT&T 326 Caller ID Clam Shell (Wind Chill White) (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• OXO Good Grips Clam Knife (reference)

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Clam chowder for dinner tonight!. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Clam dredging - although maintaining the tradition of the Chesapeake waterman, this harvesting method further stresses submerged aquatic vegetation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Clam dredging with the dredge deployed from the starboard side. Credit: Fisheries.

A Chesapeake Bay clam dredge boat underway. Credit: Fisheries.

NMFS scientists open a surf clam to determine exposure to oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Oyster and clam beds are closed in some portions of estuaries due to high levels fecal coliform bacteria, an indicator of sewage pollution. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Quahog - Mercenaria mercenaria. The quahog clam fishery is the largest in the state of Rhode Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Small gobie scavenges on remains of a tiny clam. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Clam shell bed around a thermal mound in 2800 meters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Tridacna Crocea - Giant clam embedded in coral Demonstrating variable zooxanthellae colorization in mantle. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

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His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells

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Economic History

El Salvador

For solid bulk goods, it has a telescopic unloader and clam ladle. (references)

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Expressions using "clam": beach clam ♦ Blood clam ♦ cherrystone clam ♦ clam chowder ♦ clam dip ♦ clam Falls ♦ clam Gulch ♦ clam Lake ♦ clam shut ♦ clam up ♦ freshwater clam ♦ gaper clam ♦ Giant clam ♦ hard clam ♦ Hen clam ♦ jackknife clam ♦ littleneck clam ♦ Long clam ♦ Manhattan clam chowder ♦ new England clam chowder ♦ paw clam ♦ rasor clam ♦ razor clam ♦ round clam ♦ sea clam ♦ soft clam ♦ steamer clam ♦ surf clam ♦ Tea clam. Additional references.

Beginning with "clam": clam-digger, Clam-gallas, clam-like, clam-martinic, clam-shell.

Afrikaans

gaapskulp. (various references)

Albanian

njeri i pashoqërueshëm (troglodyte), molusk që hahet, koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), gojë (chamber, kisser, mouth, mug, potato trap, potato-box, tongue). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جمع البطلينوس, ‏البطلينوس سمك صدفي, ‏شخص متكتم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам миди, шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), мълчалив човек, мида (bivalve, mussel), звън на всички камбани, бия всички камбани едновременно. (various references)

Chinese 

蜊 (gad-fly), 蜃 (example, model, pattern, sea-serpent), 蛤蜊, 蛤 (frog, toad). (various references)

Czech

zadìnka jedlá, mlž, škeble (bivalve). (various references)

Danish

venusmusling (hen), stor tæppemusling (calico clam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), sandmusling (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), en art venusmusling (calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell, hard clam, hard shelled clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam). (various references)

Dutch

tapijtschelp (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), strandgaper, slijkmossel (hen), platte slijkgaper (hen), grote strandgaper (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), getraliede tapijtschelp (calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell). (various references)

Farsi 

محکم گرفتن (Clip, Clutch, Grip, Gripe, Hug), گوشت صدف , حلزون دوکپه ای یاصدف خوراکی , بچنگال گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish

simpukka (mussel, scallop), mattosimpukka (calico clam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), hietasimpukka (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam). (various references)

French

palourde (calico clam). (various references)

German

venusmuschel (hard clam, hard shelled clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam), Teppichmuschel (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), Strandauster (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), schweigen (be quiet, be silent, cease, clam up, keep quiet, remain silent, say nothing, silence, to be silent, to keep silent, to keep still), Schlickauster (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), Sandmuschel (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), Sandklaffmuschel (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), Pfeffermuschel (hen), muschel (bivalve, earpiece, mouthpiece, mussel, Pinna, seashell, shell, shellfish), Kreuzmuster-Teppichmuschel (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), hemmen (check, choke, clog, delay, frustrate, hamper, hinder, inhibit, limit, obstruct, restrain, slow down, staunch, stem, stop, stunt, to inhibit, trig), hämmern (beat, belt out, flatten, hammer, hammer away, hammer out, hammering, pound, pound out, pounding, throb, thump, thump out, to hammer), Große Teppichmuschel (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), Große Sandklaffmuschel (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam). (various references)

Greek 

κυδώνι (quince), αμμοκόχυλο (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam). (various references)

Hebrew 

צדפה (cockle, oyster). (various references)

Hungarian

kagyló (barnacle, cockle, mussel, scallop, seashell, shell). (various references)

Italian

cumulo (bank, chunkily, clamp, clot, clots, cumulus, drift, heap, hoard, lump, mound, pile, Rick), chiusura (clamp, closing, closure, end, fastening, lock, shutdown, shutting, zip), cappa molle (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), vongola verace (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell, Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam), vongola nera (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), vongola (mussel), venere incrocicchiata (hen), presa (bite, capture, catching, clamp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, hand-grip, hold, holdfast, intake, mesh, outlet, pinch, purchase, seizing, seizure, snatch, taking, tap), nacchera (kettledrum), mollusco bivalve, mollusco (mollusc, mollusk, shellfish), arsella (mussel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蛤 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はまぐり. (various references)

Korean 

조개. (various references)

Manx

roagan (escallop, intricacy, scallop), greimmeyder marrey. (various references)

Norwegian

musling. (various references)

Pig Latin

amclay.(various references)

Portuguese

clame da areia (gaper, long clam, longneck, mananose, old maid, sandgaper, soft clam, soft-shell clam), catar (attract, collect, court, glean, look for, pick up, qatar), castanhola (castanets, escallop, knacker), torno (clamp, lathe, vise), sargento (non-com, non-commissioned officer, sergeant), molusco (borer, cockle, mollusc, mollusk), mexilhão (mussel), marisco (mussel, shellfish), grampo (brace, bracket, clamp, clasp, claw, clinch, clincher, clip, dog nail, holdfast, locket, parenthesis, spike, staple, tie-plate), ameijoa crista (calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), ameijoa boa (calicoclam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), amêijoa cristã (calico clam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell), amêijoa boa (calico clam, carpetshell, grooved carpetshell). (various references)

Romanian

scoicã de râu, frig umed. (various references)

Russian 

моллюск (mollusc, mollusk, shellfish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rak (cancer, canker, carcinoma, crawfish, crayfish), povući se u sebe (clam up), ćutljivo lice, školjka (barnacle, cockleshell, seashell, shell, shell-work). (various references)

Spanish

almeja (mussel). (various references)

Swedish

mussla (mussel, shell). (various references)

Thai

หอยชนิดหนึ่งกินได้. (various references)

Turkish

neşeli parti, istiridye (oyster), içine kapanık kimse (introvert), deniz tarağı, şamatalı toplantı. (various references)

Ukrainian

їстівний молюск, скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скритна людина, скнара (chuff, churl, codger, curmudgeon, miser, nip-cheese, piker, save-all, scraper, skinflint), нетовариська людина, замовкнути (caulk, keep quiet, pipe down, shut up, sign off), збирати молюсків, липнути (stick), прилипати (adhere, barnacle, cleave, cling, glue). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người khó gần, người không thích giao thiệp. (various references)

Mya arenaria, Mya arenaria (Linnaeus), Ruditapes decussatus, Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus,1758), Scrobicularia plana, Tapes decussa, Tapes decussatus, Venerupis decussata. (various references)

clamm. (various references)

clam. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "clam": clamant, clamantly, clambake, clambakes, clamber, clambered, clamberer, clamberers, clambering, clambers, clammed, clammer, clammers, clammier, clammiest, clammily, clamminess, clamminesses, clamming, clammy, clamor, clamored, clamorer, clamorers, clamoring, clamorous, clamorously, clamorousness, clamorousnesses, clamors, clamour, clamoured, clamouring, clamours, clamp, clampdown, clampdowns, clamped, clamper, clampers, clamping, clamps, clams, clamshell, clamshells, clamworm, clamworms. (additional references)

Words containing "clam": acclamation, acclamations, beclamor, beclamored, beclamoring, beclamors, cyclamate, cyclamates, cyclamen, cyclamens, declamation, declamations, declamatory, disclamation, disclamations, eclampsia, eclampsias, eclamptic, exclamation, exclamations, exclamatory, preeclampsia, preeclampsias, preeclamptic, proclamation, proclamations, reclamation, reclamations, reclame, reclames, unclamp, unclamped, unclamping, unclamps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Clam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alcm, caam, Cacm, Calam, calem, Calhaem, Calham, Callam, calum, camg, caum, ceam, celam, cfla, Chaam, Ciam, cla, Clac, Clai, clak, clame, clamr, clamy, clano, clasm, clau, clav, clax, clemo, clen, cliamh, clim, clin, clomd, Clum, clumd, clwan, coam, colim, Collam, Cullum, ilam, Kellam, Klyazma, Mcliam, Ociam. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: calm.

-1 letter: cam, lac, lam, mac.

-2 letters: al, am, la, ma.

+1 letter: calms, camel, claim, clamp, clams, comal, macle, malic.

+2 letters: almuce, amylic, becalm, calami, calmed, calmer, calmly, camail, camels, camlet, chimla, claims, clammy, clamor, clamps, climax, copalm, cymbal, lactam, mackle, macled, macles, macula, macule, malice, marcel, mescal, mezcal, talcum.

+3 letters: acclaim, alchemy, alchymy, alembic, almanac, almuces, armlock, baculum, becalms, calamar, calamus, calcium, calmest, calming, calomel, calumet, calumny, camails, cambial, camelia, cameral, camlets, camphol, campily, caramel, cembali, cembalo, ceramal, chasmal, chimlas, chlamys, claimed, claimer, clamant, clamber, clammed, clammer, clamors, clamour, clamped, clamper, climate, clubman, comical, copalms, cymbals, decimal, declaim, domical, emplace, exclaim, lactams, laicism, leucoma, limacon, lockram, mackled, mackles, maculae, macular, maculas, maculed, macules, magical, malacca, malefic, malices, manacle, marcels, medical, melanic, mescals, metical, mezcals, micella, mimical, miracle, miscall, mochila, mucosal, musical, myalgic, mycelia, oilcamp, plasmic, psalmic, reclaim, reclame, schmalz, talcums, unclamp.