pam
/pæm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.
Example Sentences
- "The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams."
- "In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;"
- "The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot."
- "At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range."
- "The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view."
- "The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.