American English pronunciation

How to pronounce cam

IPA transcription: ['kæm]

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Noun

  • a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River

  • a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

Usage examples

  • Blake Island was used as a camping ground by the Suquamish tribe.
  • Subsequently, the word 'cateran' came to refer to those Highland bandits or malefactors.
  • He came to understand its dodges and tricks, and to accept it as it was.
  • This was the strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space.
  • Some went away while I was there, and other people came.
  • The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he came to.
  • I think it came in a long, red box.
  • The drivers carried the freight themselves over such treacherous footing, and then reloaded the camels.
  • Soon Ezekiel W. Morgan came to town to open a store.
  • In later years, Crocker became heavily involved with railway companies.