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Meaning of "cloam" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLOAM

Old English clām mud.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOAM

cloam  [kləʊm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOAM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cloam can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CLOAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cloam in the English dictionary

The definition of cloam in the dictionary is made of clay or earthenware. Other definition of cloam is clay or earthenware pots, dishes, etc, collectively.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLOAM


caulome
ˈkɔːləʊm
chrome
krəʊm
clomb
kləʊm
coelom
ˈsiːləʊm
dome
dəʊm
foam
fəʊm
gloam
ɡləʊm
holm
həʊm
home
həʊm
honeycomb
ˈhʌnɪˌkəʊm
loam
ləʊm
metabolome
mɪˈtæbəˌləʊm
monochrome
ˈmɒnəˌkrəʊm
nome
nəʊm
phyllome
ˈfɪləʊm
Rome
rəʊm
Stockholm
ˈstɒkhəʊm
syndrome
ˈsɪndrəʊm
telome
ˈtiːləʊm
tome
təʊm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOAM

cloaca
cloacae
cloacal
cloacaline
cloacinal
cloacitis
cloak
cloak-and-dagger
cloakroom
cloakroom attendant
cloakroom ticket
clobber
clobbering machine
clochard
cloche
clock
clock card
clock face
clock golf
clock off

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOAM

antifoam
befoam
defoam
jeroboam
memory foam
plastic foam
rehoboam
roam
sea foam
shaving foam
Siloam
stroam
Styrofoam

Synonyms and antonyms of cloam in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cloam» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOAM

Find out the translation of cloam to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cloam from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cloam» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cloam
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cloam
570 millions of speakers

English

cloam
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cloam
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

cloam
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cloam
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cloam
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cloam
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cloam
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cloam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cloam
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cloam
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cloam
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cloam
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cloam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cloam
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cloam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cloam
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cloam
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cloam
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cloam
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cloam
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cloam
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cloam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cloam
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cloam

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOAM»

The term «cloam» is used very little and occupies the 190.184 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of cloam
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOAM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cloam» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cloam» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cloam

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOAM»

Discover the use of cloam in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cloam and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Springhaven
“My dearsoul,”he said, with symptoms of exhaustion, to good Mrs. Cloam, the housekeeper, who had all the keys at her girdle, about ten o'clock on the Monday morning, “what aday we didhave yesterday!” “A mercy uponme, Mr. Swipes,” ...
R. D. Blackmore, 2014
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The English dialect dictionary
CLOAM, sb. l?) Wor. Pem. Nrf. Dor. Som. Dev. Cor. Also written cloame Cor. ; clomb Dev.; clome Wor. Dor. Som. Dev. Con“; cloom Dev.; clume Dev. Con; cloru Cor. [lem.] l. Crockery, earthenware; also used arin'b. Wor. (M.A.R.) Peru. Jaso GJ .
J. Wright, 2004
3
Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
“Oh,” said Mrs. Cloam, who was fifty, if a day, “how you do make me think of sad troubles, Mr. Swipes! Jenny, take the yellow jug with the three beef-eaters on it, and go to the third cask from the door—the key 'turns upside down, mind—and let  ...
Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1896
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Thorold Dickinson: the man and his films
Major Carson arrives in the colony, having travelled out from England with Diana, the wife of suspicious and narrow-minded trader Martin Cloam. Cloam hints at a relationship between Diana and Carson, but Diana is in fact in love with ...
Jeffrey Richards, 1986
5
Philosophical Transactions to the Year ____ Abridged and ...
The Guts contained a thick deep green Juice, even to the Cloam. The Money both os Silver and Copper in the Gizzard was very remarkably worn away; the Edges, in particular, were made round, and the Bust and Reverse scarce perceptible ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), 1734
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Memoirs of the Royal Society, Or a New Abridgment of the ...
... to which the broad Sphincter muscle abovementioned is continued, and does somewhat contribute; when the Penis is extruded from the Cloam (which must hap when it is erected) the Sphincter of that part necessaril em races it, and the like ...
7
Gourmet Cornwall
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries some homes started to have rudimentary ovens of their own - usually a cloam oven. This and the flat-iron ( known as baking under) method were used in Comish kitchens for hundreds of years. Cloam ...
Carol Trewin, 2005
8
IMMOLATION ROW
They are not just some lump of cloam Or a cinch in a box of corn flakes. Although, don't forget That in the right hands, cloam can be shaped into something beautiful . We were all straphangers on someone else's journey. There was nothing ...
Tony Sanders, 2014
9
Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience ...
... several pottery centres in North Devon began producing prefabricated ovens made of extremely coarse earthenware, unglazed and low-fired.15 The first impetus for the making and marketing of these Barnstable cloam ovens is a subject for ...
Peter Edward Pope, Shannon Lewis-Simpson, 2013
10
Mega Objective General Knowledge
Which'of the following is respiratory organ of scorpion? a) Cloam b) Book lungs c) Skin d) Book Cloam 143. How many cells are there in the hen's egg? a) 1 b) 10 c) 100 d) 1000 136. A 137. C 138. C 139. A 140. C 141. A , 142. B 143. A 1 44.
Sura College of Competition, V.V.K.Subburaj, 2004

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cloam is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cornish farmhouse cookery school Philleigh Way launches new …
... asado style of cooking, which is huge in Argentina, and traditional wood-fired cloam ovens that were a standard fixture for Cornish fireplaces. «Western Morning News, May 15»
2
Would you like 10000 Cloems with that Patent?
Customers might also want to cloam a competitor's patent application to prevent them expanding that subject matter. www.cloem.com. «Patently-O, Oct 14»
3
Paula Marcoux's 'Cooking With Fire' spans history
She also has a small English cloam (pottery) oven that she experiments with. The ovens, she says, are without equal for baking bread and ... «Boston Globe, May 14»
4
House / 5 bedrooms / sleeps 11
The snug has a cloam oven set into another inglenook. The double height kitchen has an Aga plus electric built-in oven, large fridge/freezer ... «Holiday Lettings, Sep 11»

REFERENCE
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