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Definition: Ham |
HamNoun1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 2. An unskilled actor who overacts. Verb1. Exaggerate one's acting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ham" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "hot", "heat", "brown", "to be hot", "warm". |
Date "ham" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Ham warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites. One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See ACCAD.) The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biographical Satire | HAM, second officer and engineer of the Ark. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing hams, signifies you are in danger of being treacherously used. To cut large slices of ham, denotes that all opposition will be successfully met by you. To dress a ham, signifies you will be leniently treated by others. To dream of dealing in hams, prosperity will come to you. Also good health is foreboded. To eat ham, you will lose something of great value. To smell ham cooking, you will be benefited by the enterprises of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Ham and ~~~Heyd. Heyd. Storm demons or weather-sprites. (Scandinavian mythology.) "Though valour never should be scorned. Yet now the storm rules wide; By now again to live returned I'll wager Ham and Heyd." Frithiof Saga, lay xi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | A government-licensed operator of an amateur radio station (once on the air, he got in touch with --s on the mainland and they in turn warned ships away from the dangerous coast). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Amateur radio, commonly called "ham radio", is a hobby enjoyed by many people throughout the world; about 3 million worldwide, 5000 in Norway and 700,000 in the USA. Owners of an Amateur Radio license have studied and passed required tests in their country and then are issued a call sign by their government. This call sign is unique to that person and is a source of pride. The holder of a call sign uses it on the air to legally identify all voice and data communications. Amateur Radio should not be confused with CB radio which is limited to voice operation, allowed lower power limits, fewer frequency allocations and is unlicensed in most countries.
In most countries, bandwidth has been set aside for amateurs to practice all of the various radio technology practices, from Morse code to radio teletype, data and voice. Specific frequency allocations are a matter of record with the various countries, but the most widely used bands include:
There are other amateur radio bands as well, covering frequencies as low as 135 kHz and as high as 300 GHZ and above.
- 80 meters (3.5 - 4.0 MHz)
- 40 meters (either 7.0 - 7.1 MHz or 7.0 -7.3 MHz)
- 20 meters (14.0 - 14.35 MHz)
- 10 meters (28.0 - 29.5 MHz)
- 2 meters (144.0 - 148.0 MHz)
Licensed Amateur Radio operators enjoy personal two-way communications with friends and family members, who must also be licensed. They support the larger public community with emergency and disaster communications. Increasing a person's knowledge of electronics and radio theory as well as radio contesting are also popular aspects of this radio service or hobby. A good way to get started in Ham Radio is to find a club in your area to answer your questions and provide information on getting licensed and then getting on the air!
Ham Radio offers the licensed operators powerful radio modes that give it uniquely reliable communications during and after disasters. Many of these rely on the "simplex" mode that is direct, radio-to-radio, avoiding the problems associated with networks that might fail. In Ham Radio simplex communications would allow skilled radio operators to talk across town on VHF or UHF frequencies, or across the world on the HF (shortwave) bands of frequencies. Hams also have another powerful tool available, repeaters. Repeaters are radio relay devices usually located on the top of a mountain or tall building. A repeater allows the licensed Ham to have radio coverage for hundreds of miles from just a small handheld or mobile two-way radio.
Within amateur radio, one can pursue interests such as providing communications for a community emergency response team; antenna theory; satellite communication; disaster response; Skywarn; packet radio (using data transmission protocols similar to that used on the internet, but via radio links); DX communication over thousands of miles using the ionosphere to refract radio waves; Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) which is a composite network of radio signals and the internet ; and super low-power or QRP operation.
One of the many exciting activities of ham radio is the DX-pedition. Radio amateurs collect QSL cards from other stations, indicating the continents and regions which they have contacted. Certain zones of the world have very few radio amateurs. As a result, when a station with a rare ID comes on the air, radio amateurs flock to communicate with it. To take advantage of this phenomenon, groups of hams transport radio equipment into a remote country or island (such as normally uninhabited Bouvet Island, which has the rare callsign prefix 3Y). These expeditions can help hams quickly achieve a communication award such as a DXCC. To obtain the DXCC award a ham needs confirming QSL cards from hams in 100 countries around the world.
Contesting is another activity which has garnered interest in the ham community. During a period of time (normally 24 to 48 hours) a ham tries to successfully communicate with as many other hams as possible. The contesting amateur may concentrate on just DX stations, or only on stations powered by emergency generation equipment or running on batteries. The contest may or may not be limited in allowable modes of transmission.
Some hams use VHF or UHF frequencies to bounce their signals off the moon. The return signal is heard by many other hams who also do EME (earth-moon-earth). The antenna arrays are massive so a lot of real estate is needed. Other hams transmit with very low power. Signals on the order of 5 watts or less are heard all over the world by these QRP (low power) operators.
Even with the advent of the internet (offering email, music, broadcast audio, video, voice over IP VoIP) ham radio is not diminishing in countries with advanced communications infrastructure. Amateur radio remains strong even today, as figures from the American Radio Relay League will prove.
In times of crises and natural disasters, ham radio may be the only surviving mode of communication.
On March 18, 1909 Einar Dessau used a short-wave radio transmitter which made him the first to broadcast as a ham radio operator.
Tony Hancock's 1960 BBC TV episode "The Radio Ham", in which he plays an incompetent ham radio operator, has remained popular in the UK and has played a small part in keeping the memory of ham radio's heyday alive.
See also
- Morse code, electromagnetism, Electromagnetic radiation, Q Code, SSTV, country codes, callsigns, PSK31, ARISS, American Radio Relay League.
External links
- ARRL - Information on ham radio.
- U.S. Amateur Radio Frequency Allocation Chart - a one-page color chart showing the frequencies available to amateurs in the United States.
- Contact information for on the Amateur Radio society of your country. They will provide all information on licencing terms and put you in touch with radio amateurs in your own town.
- Amateur Radio and call signs information. Canadians may wish to visit the Radio Amateurs of Canada site.
- If you are in Canada, find a club near you.
- If you are in the USA, find a club near you.
- An example of a base station
- Learn about the repeater system that a Ham Radio club sponsors in Utah.
- Glossary of amateur radio terms.
- For the etymology of 'ham', see ham(2) or "Why ham?"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amateur radio."
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Hold-And-Modify (more commonly know as HAM) is a screenmode of the Amiga micro computer. It works by interpreting the data for a pixel as 'copy the colour of my neighbour to the left' (Hold), then 'change that colour' (Modify). This allowed the computer to use a fairly rich palette, even if there were only a few bits available to indicate the colour.A disadvantage was that rapid colour changes within a row of pixels were not possible, so if you tried to encode such a fast change, you would get artifacting similar to the type you sometimes get with the JPEG graphics format.
In the early days of multimedia, HAM gave the Amiga a small advantage over competing systems, because it allowed the system to display digitized photographs and rendered 3D images at a much more realistic level.
On early Amiga systems, only 5 bits could be used to indicate colours. Most screenmodes worked with indexed colours, meaning the 2^5 (=32) colours could be displayed at most. The HAM mode reserved 1 bit to indicate whether a colour was indexed or not (so 16 colours could come from an index and form the initial colours) and used 4 bits to indicate the shift in colour one pixel would have from its left neighbour.
A row of pixels would always start with one of the 16 indexed colours.
But how does it calculate the colour shift from there on?
HAM allowed for a maximum of 4096 colours to be used, because the system used 12-bit colour, 4 bits for each of Red, Green and Blue (2^12 = 4096).
On later Amiga systems (starting with the A1200 and A4000), a pixel could have 8 bits to encode its colour, which allowed for 256 colours from an index, and a HAM mode allowing colours from a 24-bit palette. HAM-8 as it was called, therefore allowed a maximum of 262,144 colours on-screen from a palette of 16,777,216.
HAM was only originally put into the Amigas custom chipset as an experiment. To quote Jay Miner (known as "the father of the Amiga") himself:
"Hold and Modify came from a trip to see flight simulators in action and I had a kind of idea about a primitive type of virtual reality. NTSC on the chip meant you could hold the Hue and change the luminance by only altering four bits. When we changed to RGB I said that wasn't needed any more as it wasn't useful and I asked the chip layout guy to take it off. He came back and said that this would either leave a big hole in the middle of the chip or take a three-month redesign and we couldn't do that. I didn't think anyone would use it. I was wrong again as that has really given the Amiga its edge in terms of the colour palette."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "HAM."
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See also: HAM, Ham radio, Ham sauce, Ham Lake, Minnesota, Farmer Giles of Ham, West Ham, London, England, West Ham United F.C
- For the meat called ham see: Ham (meat)
- Ham is a municipality in Belgium; see: Ham, Belgium
- Ham is a commune of the Somme département in France
- In Egyptian mythology, Ham is an alternate spelling for Chem, which see for more details.
- Ham was the second of the sons of Noah in the Bible.
- Ham the Chimp was the first United States higher primate to go into space.
- Ham is a term used to refer to E-mail which is not spam.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ham."
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Ham is a part of pork, namely meat from the haunch of a pig or boar. Although it is cooked and served fresh, most ham is smoked or processed in some way.
Varieties include Parma ham (ham from the city of Parma) and prosciutto (ham in the style of Parma but from Italy). The Spanish jamon is dried but not smoked. Virginia ham, the most notable of which is the Smithfield ham, is smoked.
Ham is also processed into other meat products such as SPAM luncheon meat.
To cure Hams
For each ham of twelve pounds weight: Two pounds of common salt; 2 ounces of saltpetre; 1/4 pound of bay salt; 1/4 pound of coarse sugar. This should be reduced to the finest powder. Rub the hams well with it, then place them in a deep pan, and add a wineglassful of good vinegar. Turn the hams every day; for the first three or four days rub them well with the brine; after that time it will suffice to ladle it over the meat with a wooden or iron spoon. They should remain three weeks in the pickle. When taken from it wipe them well, put them in bags of brown paper and then smoke them with wood smoke for three weeks.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ham (meat)."
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Ham is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1st, 2002 Ham had a total population of 9,387 (4,703 males and 4,684 females). The total area is 32.97 km² which gives a population density of 284.71 inhabitants per km².
External links
- Official website - Only available in Dutch
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ham (municipality)."
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Ham, also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp was the first higher primate launched into outer space by the United States.In December of 1960 the 44 months old chimpanzee was trained to do simple tasks in response to electric lights and sounds, with response being timed. On January 31, 1961 Ham was secured in a Project Mercury capsule labeled MR-2 and launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida into outer space. The capsule suffered a partial loss of pressure during the flight, but Ham's space suit kept him from suffering harm. During the flight Ham had to push a lever within five seconds after a blue light flashed (as per pre-flight training, failure would result in an electric shock to the soles of his feet). Ham's performance in space was only a fraction of a second slower than on earth, demonstrating that tasks could be done in space. Ham's capsule splashed down in the Atlantic and was recovered by a rescue ship later that day.
After the flight Ham lived for 17 years in the National Zoo in Washington D.C, then to a zoo in North Carolina before dying at the age of 27 on January 19, 1983. Ham appeared repeatedly on television, and on film with Evel Knievel. Ham the Chimp is buried at the Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
External Links
- NASA Description of mission
- Ham the Chimp
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ham the Chimp."
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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Ha - Hb-Hd -He-Hh - Hi-Hm - Hn - Ho - Hp - Hq - Hr - Hs - Ht - Hu - Hv - Hw - Hx - Hy - Hz Haa/Hå - Hab-Haf - Hag-Hah - Hai-Hak - Hal - Ham - Han - Hao-Haq - Har - Has-Hat - Hau-Hav - Haw-Hax - Hay-HazHam
- Hamann, J. G
- Hambe, Alf, Swedish writer
- Hambly, Barbara, US fantasy author
- Hamed, Naseem, world champion boxer
- Hamel, Veronica, US actress
- Hamill, Dorothy, (born 1956), figure skater
- Hamill, Mark, (born 1952), US actor of Luke Skywalker fame
- Hamilton, Alexander, (1757-1804), USA revolutionary & Treasury Secretary
- Hamilton, Andrew, Governor of New Jersey
- Hamilton, Andrew J, (1865-1866), American Governor of Texas
- Hamilton, Edmond, (1904-1977), US science fiction writer
- Hamilton, George, (born 1939), US actor
- Hamilton-Gordon, John Campbell , 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, (1847-1934), Scottish politician
- Hamilton, Hugo Johan, Swedish soldier
- Hamilton, James, Director of Public Prosecutions
- Hamilton, James Inglis, British General in American revolution
- Hamilton, Jane, Canadian writer
- Hamilton, Jimmy, musician
- Hamilton, Laurell K, author
- Hamilton, Linda, (born 1956), US actress
- Hamilton, Margaret, (1902-1985), actress
- Hamilton, Neil, lawyer
- Hamilton, Peter F, British science fiction writer
- Hamilton, Richard, (born 1922), painter
- Hamilton, Scott, (born 1958), figure skater
- Hamilton, William, (1805-1865), physicist
- Hamilton, William Rowan, (1805-1865), mathematical physicist
- Hamilton, William T, US governor
- Ham, Jack, (born 1948), US football star
- Hamlin, Hannibal, (1809-1891), US politician
- Hamlin, Harry, (born 1951), actor
- Hamlisch, Marvin, (born 1944), composer, musician
- Hammad, Suheir, Palestinan-American poet and political activist
- Hammarskjöd, Dag, (1905-1961), Swedish Secretary-General of United Nations
- Hammer, Armand, (born 1898), physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, art collector
- Hammer, Bernhard, (1822-1907), Swiss president
- Hammer, Jan, (born 1948), composer
- Hammer, M.C, (born 1962), rap singer
- Hammershoi, Wilhelm, (1864-1916), painter
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, (1895-1960), songwriter
- Hammett, Dashiell, (1894-1961), American author, novelist
- Hamm, Mia, (born 1972), soccer player
- Hammond, Albert, (born 1942), musician, composer
- Hammond, Jay Sterner
- Hammond, Joan, (born 1912), soprano
- Hammond, John, (1910-1987), musician
- Hammond, Jupiter, (born 1711), poet
- Hammond, Lee, musician
- Hammond, Lloyd, astronaut
- Hammurabi, Babylonian king
- Hamner, Earl, Jr, (born 1923), author, television producer
- Hamnett, Nina, (1890-1956), Welsh painter
- Ham, Pete, singer-songwriter
- Hampson, Frank, science fiction visual artist
- Hampson, John, inventor of "venetian" blinds
- Hamptom, Lionel, (born 1913), musician
- Hampton, Lionel, (1908-2002), musician
- Hampton, Michael, (born 1956), guitarist
- Hampton, Slide, musician
- Hampton, Wade, US politician
- Hamsho, Mustafa, boxer
- Hamsun, Knut, (1859-1952), Norwegian author
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of people by name: Ham."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HAM | English | High Accuracy Multiplier | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HamSynonyms: gammon (n), ham actor (n), jambon (n), overact (v), overplay (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: underact (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat; courthouse; ghetto. |
The Drama | Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spam a lot. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail ; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) Careful, you ham fisted cow (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) How about a ham sandwich (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Mama Cass deceased, ham sandwich (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I Am. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) | |
Lyrics | They sell Tennessee ham and strawberry jam (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Man ham gerye kardam (1968) De Kalte ham Skarven (1965) Pick a Ham (1959) A Ham in a Role (1949) Ham and Yeggs (1942) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows a whole baked ham, sliced at the end to show inside of cooked ham. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Ham. Credit: NASA. |
 | Ham Checks Out Equipment. Credit: NASA. |  | Ham Tries Out His Life Support System. Credit: NASA. |
 | Delores Gunn (l) and Sandra Tucker prepare USDA commodity Turkey Ham and Cheese sandwiches for the school lunch program at F. C. Hammond Jr. High in Alexandria, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Oh, for twelve billion dollars worth of ham and eggs!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wagon train on Main Street, in front of Hotel Western, Fallon, Nev.] / by R. Ham. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wife of tenant farmer cutting piece of ham in smokehouse near Pace, Mississippi. Background photo for Sunflower Plantation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Louis Napoleon escaping from Ham in 1846. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Strassenjungs : neue LP-- wir ham ne Party. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Christmas ham" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "A big smoked ham roasted, then glazed with pineapple and a glaze of port, cinamon and pineapple juice." | "Up a little nose" by Keely Singer Commentary: "What a ham. I could take this girl's picture all day." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Will Rogers | Take my ham away, take my eggs away, even my chili, but leave me my newspaper. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa waved the ham bone he held |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try using bacon, ham, or onion to add flavor to vegetables. (references) | |
Infection occurs worldwide, but is most common in areas where raw or undercooked pork, such as ham or sausage, is eaten. (references) | ||
Business | The average café or tavern offers cheese, ham, pate, sandwiches, salads, omelets and Italian-style foods such as spaghetti and lasagna. (references) | |
Economic History | Denmark | Among major Danish exports to the U.S. are industrial machinery, chemical products, furniture, pharmaceuticals, and canned ham and pork. (references) |
Singapore | The Geographical Indications Act also came into force January 15, 1999, and seeks to prevent the use and registration of misleading geographical indications (i.e. "Virginia" ham, "California" wine) which would constitute an act of unfair competition within the meaning of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. (references) | |
Bahrain | Initially, bids for the contract to dredge 15 cubic meter of material and the reclamation of up to 400 hectares were submitted by five prequalified companies, the US' Great Lakes Dredge&Dock Company, Ham Dredging of the Netherlands, the UK/Dutch Royal Boskalis Westminster, Jan de Nul of Belgium and Geneva-registered Archirodon Construction (Overseas). (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | The same data applies to processed products such as ham, sausages, canned products, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ham" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.11% of the time. "Ham" is used about 1,368 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50.11% | 685 | 9,667 |
| Noun (proper) | 49.38% | 675 | 9,782 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.29% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.22% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ham" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ham | Last name | 8,000 | 1,617 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Ham" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "hot", "heat", "brown", "to be hot", "warm". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ham." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ham | N/A | Biblical | N/A |
| Ham | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Sagami Ham Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ham": a slice of ham ♦ boiled ham ♦ christmas ham ♦ cooked ham ♦ cure ham ♦ cured ham ♦ ham acting ♦ ham actor ♦ ham actress ♦ ham and eggs ♦ ham hock ♦ ham it up ♦ Ham Lake ♦ ham roll ♦ ham sandwich ♦ ham up ♦ picnic ham ♦ potted ham ♦ radio ham ♦ raw ham ♦ smoked ham ♦ Virginia ham. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ham": ham-actor, ham-and-salad, ham-and-tomato, ham-bone, ham-fisted, ham-fistedness, ham-fists, ham-footed, ham-handed, ham-hands, HAM-HANS, ham-hocks, ham-hung, ham-like, ham-operated, ham-sized. | |
Ending with "ham": bacon-cum-ham, chicken-and-ham, Notting-ham. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ham radio | 1,357 | ham salad | 53 |
ham | 727 | ham salad recipe | 51 |
honey baked ham | 676 | baked ham recipe | 50 |
country ham | 422 | ham ham hamtaro heartbreak rom | 50 |
ham radio outlet | 313 | honey baked ham company | 43 |
smoked ham | 213 | smithfield ham | 43 |
green eggs and ham | 199 | baked ham | 43 |
ham recipe | 196 | honey baked ham store | 43 |
west ham | 189 | ham glaze | 42 |
heavenly ham | 172 | ham antenna | 41 |
west ham united | 153 | ham radio license | 41 |
hamtaro ham ham heartbreak | 131 | ham radio mods | 40 |
cheat ham ham hamtaro heartbreak | 104 | ham radio software | 39 |
honeybaked ham | 74 | cheat ham ham heartbreak | 37 |
ham radio antenna | 72 | ham ham | 37 |
ham ham hamtaro heartbreak through walk | 72 | ham ham hamtaro unite | 37 |
mia ham | 67 | cooking ham | 36 |
ham radio equipment | 62 | ham radio for sale | 34 |
ken ham | 57 | cook ham | 32 |
ham ham heartbreak | 54 | used ham radio | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ham"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | proshutë (bacon, gammon), pjesë prapa gjurit, kofshë derri (gammon). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممثل غير بارع, لحم خنزير مدخن, لحم خنذير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свински бут, шунка (gammon), любител (addict, amateur, connoisseur, dilettante, fancier, hound, laic, lover, merchant, outsider), лош актьор (ham actor), бут (butt, buttock, haunch, leg, quarter, rump, side), бедро (breech, haunch, hip, huckle, thigh). (various references) | |
Catalan | pernil. (various references) | |
Cebuano | hamon. (various references) | |
Chamorro | hammon. (various references) | |
Chinese | 火腿 . (various references) | |
Cornish | mordhos hogh. (various references) | |
Czech | hrát melodramaticky, histrión, radioamatér, přehrávat (overplay), šunka. (various references) | |
Danish | skinke (pendant, span, unboned). (various references) | |
Dutch | ham. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝinko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | svínatjógv. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقلدبی ذوق وبی مزه , ژامبون , گوشت ران , تازه کار (Beginner, Colt, Jackleg, Novice, Novitiate, Rookie, Tenderfoot, Tyro), ران خوک نمک زده , بطوراغراق امیزی عمل کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kinkku (pork leg bone-in, rindless). (various references) | |
French | jambon. (various references) | |
Frisian | skinke (donate, give). (various references) | |
German | Schinken (gammon, great daub, tome). (various references) | |
Greek | χοιρομέρι (gammon), ζαμπόν (unboned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ירך חזיר מעושנת, ירך (femur, haunch, hip, loin, thigh), לשחק בהגזמה (overact, overplay), קותל חזיר (bacon), פסטרמה, אלחוטאי חובב, בשר חזיר (bacon, pork). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sonka (leg of pork), ripacs (barn-stormer, buffoon, mugger, pitting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | paha babi, paha (haunch, thigh). (various references) | |
Italian | prosciutto (gammon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 股肉 (ground round), ハトロン紙 (agreed, Armageddon, falling rapidly in big drops, good, haddock, hafnium, halation, halberd, Halley, ham and eggs, ham and salad, Hamilton, Hamming, Hammond organ, hamster, Hanoi, happening, Harrier, Harry, hashed meat with rice, heart going pit-a-pat, honey, honeymoon, Honeywell, Hubbard, hum, humming, hurricane, kraft paper, resin, rosefish, splendid, style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform, to be in harmony, to harmonize, twitterpating, wonderful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハム (hum), ももにく (ground round). (various references) | |
Korean | 햄. (various references) | |
Lombard | giambon. (various references) | |
Macedonian | shunka. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skinke. (various references) | |
Papago | ha-mohn. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ham. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amhay.(various references) | |
Polish | szynka. (various references) | |
Portuguese | presunto (gammon). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | presunto. (various references) | |
Provencal | cambajon. (various references) | |
Romanian | scobitura genunchiului, oraş (city, town), jambon, coapsã (thigh), cabotin, şuncã afumatã, şuncã (bacon, gammon), actor slab, aşezare omeneascã. (various references) | |
Romansch | schambun. (various references) | |
Russian | ветчина. (various references) | |
Samoan | alaga. (various references) | |
Scottish | ceus (crucify, the coarse part of the wool on sheep's legs, torture), bòdhan. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | but (aitchbone, leg), šunka. (various references) | |
Sicilian | prisuttu. (various references) | |
Spanish | jamón (gammon), jamon. (various references) | |
Sranan | ameti. (various references) | |
Swedish | skinka (bacon, buttock, cheek, pork), rökt skinka (cured ham, gammon). (various references) | |
Thai | เนื้อขาหมูรมควัน, นักแสดงที่แสดงเกินบทบาท, นักแสดง (artist). (various references) | |
Turkish | rol kesmek, kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), jambon, gösterişçi (faker, pretentious, raffish, show off, showy, swanky), artist (artist, swagger, swaggerer), amatör radyocu, acemi oyuncu (rabbit), abartılı oynamak (overact, overplay). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стегно (femur, haunch, hip, huck, thigh), шинка, окорок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thành phố làng. (various references) | |
Welsh | gar (thigh). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hamm. (various references) |
| Old North French | 1200-1500 | gambon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 14, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En de tw tessareskaidekatw etei hlqen codollogomor kai oi basileiV oi met' autou kai katekoyan touV gigantaV touV en astarwq karnain kai eqnh iscura ama autoiV kai touV ommaiouV touV en sauh th polei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Igitur anno quartodecimo venit Chodorlahomor et reges qui erant cum eo percusseruntque Rafaim in Astharothcarnaim et Zuzim cum eis et Emim in Savecariathaim |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | On þam xiiii geare þa ferdon Chodorlahomor ond þa cyningas þe him mid forbunden wæron ond oferwunnon þa Rephaitas on Asteroð Karnaime, ond þa Susitas on Hame, þa Emitas on Safe Kiriaðaime, |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor the fourtenthe yeer com Chodorlaomor, and the kyngis that weren with hym, and smytyn Raphaym in Astaroth, Carnaym, and Zuzym with hem, and Emim in Sabe Chariathaim, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale |
