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# jamb

«jamb» in Mova's school dictionary: **The side post of a door or window frame** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (jambs)

### meaning for a pupil

The side post of a door or window frame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jamb/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a door speaks of the beam fixed in its jambs, which hold it in place

### examples

- The key turned in the lock near the jamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jamb/#x1)
- The door jambs were painted white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jamb/#x2)
- He leaned against the door jamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jamb/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [As for the temple, the jambs were squared; and the face of the sanctuary had an appearance such as is the appearance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1119/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jamb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jamb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.