Clams vs. Clamp

Clams and Clamp Definitions
Clams
Any of various usually burrowing marine and freshwater bivalve mollusks chiefly of the subclass Heterodonta, including members of the families Veneridae and Myidae, many of which are edible.
Clamp
Any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts.
Clams
The soft edible body of such a mollusk.
Clamp
Any of various tools with opposing, often adjustable sides or parts for bracing objects or holding them together.
Clams
(Informal) A close-mouthed person, especially one who can keep a secret.
Clamp
To fasten, grip, or support with or as if with a clamp.
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Clams
(Slang) A dollar
Owed them 75 clams.
Clamp
To establish by authority; impose
Clamped a tax on imports.
Clams
A clamp or vise.
Clamp
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
Clams
To hunt for clams.
Clamp
(medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
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Clams
Plural of clam
Clamp
(UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
Clams
Informal terms for money
Clamp
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
Clamp
A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
Clamp
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
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Clamp
(electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
Clamp
(dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
Clamp
To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
Clamp
(transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
Clamp
(transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
Clamp
To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
Clamp
(transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.
Clamp
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
Clamp
Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
Clamp
An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
Clamp
One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
Clamp
A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
Clamp
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
Clamp
A mollusk. See Clam.
Clamp
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
Clamp
To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
Clamp
To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
Clamp
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
The policeman with clamping feet.
Clamp
A device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
Clamp
Fasten or fix with a clamp;
Clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened
Clamp
Impose or inflict forcefully;
The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital