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单词 ham
释义
ham1 nounham2 verb
hamham1 /hæm/ ●●● S3 noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINham1
Origin:
1 Old English hamm2 1900-2000 Perhaps from amateur3 1800-1900 ham-fatter ‘bad actor’ (19-20 centuries), from the song 'The Ham-fat Man'.
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a ham for Easter dinner
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • At Christmas they sent hams and bourbon to the house.
  • Bear hams were available from superior dealers in salted provisions.
  • He gon na give me my ham.
  • In this case a 101 year old ham, the most ancient in the world.
  • On top, place half of cheese and ham.
  • Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread.
  • York ham is renowned throughout the world, although other hams are less well known.
word sets
WORD SETS
aerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
British English (=one that is filled with ham, cheese etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· There would be a table groaning with smoked ham, with thick succulent slices of cold beef and crusty fresh bread.· I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham.
NOUN
· All she eats is a tongue or a ham sandwich.· And what about the ham sandwich?· She longed for a thick ham sandwich and her bed.· I went to the nearest deli and came back with a ham sandwich and a large container of coffee.· Reid in London A bowl of cornflakes can kill you-not to mention a ham sandwich or a T-bone steak.· Like Lindbergh, Signs brought five ham sandwiches on the 3, 610-mile trip.· I ate a ham sandwich on white bread with dill pickles that soaked through the bread and made it soggy and green.
1[countable, uncountable] the upper part of a pig’s leg, or the meat from this that has been preserved with salt or smokegammon:  a ham sandwich a seven-pound ham2[countable] someone who receives and sends radio messages for fun rather than as their job3[countable] informal an actor who performs with too much false emotion
ham1 nounham2 verb
hamham2 verb (past tense and past participle hammed, present participle hamming) Verb Table
VERB TABLE
ham
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyham
he, she, ithams
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhammed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave hammed
he, she, ithas hammed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad hammed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill ham
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have hammed
Continuous Form
PresentIam hamming
he, she, itis hamming
you, we, theyare hamming
PastI, he, she, itwas hamming
you, we, theywere hamming
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been hamming
he, she, ithas been hamming
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been hamming
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be hamming
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been hamming
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
  • Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
British English (=one that is filled with ham, cheese etc)
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Every year Dad puts on his Santa suit and hams it up for the kids.
  • For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
  • Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
ham it up informal to perform with too much false emotion when acting
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