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# spam

«spam» in Mova's school dictionary: **unwanted messages sent to many people at once, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spam — uncountable; Spam); verb (spam, spams, spammed, spamming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spam is unwanted messages sent to many people at once, usually emails or texts trying to sell something or trick you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#m1)

2) To spam means to send lots of unwanted messages, or to post the same thing again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#m2)

3) Spam is a brand of tinned cooked pork meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In online safety lessons spam often hides scams and phishing links: do not click, do not reply, report or delete it. Email programs have a spam folder or junk folder. In games and chats, spamming means flooding the chat or using the same move again and again. Spam (the meat) is a tinned food from the USA, famous in wartime Britain.

### examples

- My email filter sent the message to the spam folder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x1)
- Never click links in spam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x2)
- Stop spamming the chat with emojis! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x3)
- He kept spamming the same attack in the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x4)
- The spam said I had won a prize, but it was a trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x5)
- Grandad remembers eating Spam sandwiches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x6)
- Report the account if it sends spam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x7)

### note

Spam (messages) is uncountable: some spam, a lot of spam, a spam email. The verb doubles m: spammed, spamming. Spam with a capital S is the meat brand. A spammer is a person who sends spam.

### In the corpora

- [Spam filters use AI to spot junk and scam emails, but some real emails end up in the spam folder too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/6/)
- [A spam filter can give points to warning words and flag a message when its points reach a set number.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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