clamp

Etymology 1
From, , from , related to 🇨🇬.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
 * 2)  An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
 * 3)  A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
 * 4)  A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
 * 5)   A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
 * 6) A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
 * 7)  An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَشْبَك
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: заціска́ч, за́ціск
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: svěrka
 * Danish: skruetvinge
 * Dutch: lijmklem,
 * Esperanto: krampo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჭახრაკი, მომჭერი
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: Chlempi
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: þvinga
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クレンメ, クランプ,
 * Kazakh: қысқыш
 * Korean: 조임틀, 클램프
 * Macedonian: менгеме, стега, клема
 * Maori: whakakopa, rawhi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skrutvinge,
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Kjlam
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Slovak: svorka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: затиска́ч, за́тиск, струбцина
 * Urdu: شکنجه
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: tòrcoło


 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: пеан
 * Maori: rawhi
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: затискач


 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, кагат

Verb

 * 1)  To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
 * 2)  To hold or grip tightly.
 * 3)  To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
 * 4)  To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
 * 5)  To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
 * I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.
 * 1)  To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
 * I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: připevnit
 * Esperanto: krampi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Maori: whakakopa, rawhi
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Ukrainian:, закріпляти


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: krampi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Maori: whakakopa
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: стискати

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1)  A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Verb

 * 1)  To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.

Etymology
Probably borrowed from

Noun

 * 1) (medical)