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clamp English

Meaning clamp meaning

What does clamp mean?
Definitions in simple English

clamp Noun

— A clamp is a device that holds and fixes machine elements together.

clamp Verb

— If you clamp something, you fasten it in place or together with a clamp. Please use a vise to clamp the pieces of wood together. — If you clamp onto something, you hold it tightly. She had to clamp a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing.

clamp

— verb fasten or fix with a clamp clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened — verb impose or inflict forcefully The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital — noun a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

Synonyms clamp synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as clamp?

clamp English » English

staple brace pinch parenthesis clip grip clasp vice cramp squeeze press nip bracket holdfast grasp grab clutch tongs fastening fasten clinch vise pin down pin against pile jig heap grapple fish fastener constrictor constrict connecting terminal compress clench buckle attachment clip wring wrench work locating fixture wiring terminal wire ferrule wad twitch twinge tweezers tong tighten together tighten tie down

Topics clamp topics

What do people use clamp to talk about?
Person Life Birth

Help to give birth
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Work and occupation Tool

Holding tool

Conjugation clamp conjugation

How do you conjugate clamp?

clamp · verb

Examples clamp examples

How do I use clamp in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

He wouldn't have pulled this unless he was ready to clamp down.
I like a tight clamp at the heel - gives better knee pressure.
The clamp on one of my skis broke and I fell.
Let me warn you: if you don't mend your ways, I'll be forced to clamp down on you.
He put your head in the clamp.
No. It'll consider it one of its own. So it'll come closer and - - I'll clamp the handcuffs on it.
Clamp down on them.
Releasing first clamp.
First clamp away.
Second clamp.
Second clamp away.
Third clamp.
Give me a clamp.
Nurse, you got a clamp, please?
Lift your body and clamp your foot on the ceiling.
If you were to clamp the main plate lead to a good ground like that table there, you'd get a better picture. A lot of lines in it now.
Clamp the main plate lead to the table.
All right, clamp one on each end of the blood vessel.
Tissue clamp.
I have already called my opposite number in the Soviet Academy of Space Science. They agreed to cooperate. Does the clamp-down include Missis Ross?
Paint the churchwarden's potato clamp.
Clamp.
Give me a clamp. Give me a clamp.
Now for the second clamp.
I've got to clamp the lid on this business.
Reef and I could take the explorer down, clamp it onto the eye - No.
Steven, take my stick and clamp it down on his gun.
Does the clamp-down include Missis Ross?
Third clamp. Fourth. Opening hatch.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, efforts to clamp down on protests have continued.
Both require active and alert citizens who engage what they do not like rather than calling for the state to clamp down on it.
Britain's government is beginning to recognize the danger, and is trying to clamp down on schools and mosques that spread hate.
From then on, Musharraf seems genuinely to have tried to clamp down on the Frankenstein's monster that he had sustained as an instrument of Pakistani policy.
It is no surprise that corrupt regimes routinely clamp down on the press, trade unions, and on professional associations.
Nonetheless, India does need new laws - direct and enforceable - that clamp down on the cultural practices that underpin destructive traditions.
If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.

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