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# tam

«tam» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, round, flat woollen cap, often with a bobble…** — 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 (a tam, tams); abbreviation or fragment (tam)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tam (short for tam-o'-shanter) is a soft, round, flat woollen cap, often with a bobble (pom-pom) on top, traditionally worn in Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#m1)

2) (Ukrainian, in Latin letters) «Tam» means «there» in Ukrainian (там), said like «tum»; it is not an English word in that sense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#m2)

3) Tam is also a short form of the name Tamsin or Thomas (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history it is part of traditional Scottish dress. «Tam o' Shanter» is a poem by Robert Burns about a farmer chased by witches. In Ukrainian lessons «tut i tam» means «here and there». Phrases: «a tartan tam», «tam-o'-shanter», «tut i tam» (Ukrainian).

### examples

- The piper wore a tartan tam with a red bobble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x1)
- In winter Nan knits me a woolly tam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x2)
- «Tam o' Shanter» is a poem by Robert Burns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x3)
- In Ukrainian, «Vin tam» means «He is there». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x4)
- My friend Tam plays the bagpipes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x5)
- A tam is softer and flatter than a beanie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tam/#x6)

### note

Countable: a tam, tams. Not to be confused with a «tam-tam», a large gong. In Ukrainian the word is written там in Cyrillic.

### In the corpora

- [In Aberdeen, Nell has invented two brothers, Rab and Tam, who get blamed for every mess.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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