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# spam

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

«spam» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Spam is unwanted messages sent to many people at once, usually emails or texts trying to sell something or trick you. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#m2)
3. Spam is a brand of tinned cooked pork meat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x1)
- Never click links in spam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x2)
- Stop spamming the chat with emojis! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x3)
- He kept spamming the same attack in the game. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x5)
- Grandad remembers eating Spam sandwiches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/#x6)
- Report the account if it sends spam. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «spam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spam/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«spam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/spam.html) on Mova free.