clam vs dollar

clam

noun
  • A dollar. 

  • A kind of vise, usually of wood. 

  • One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak. 

  • clamminess; moisture 

  • A vagina. 

  • A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. 

  • Strong pincers or forceps. 

  • A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. 

  • A Scientologist. 

  • In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note. 

verb
  • To dig for clams. 

  • To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. 

  • To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. 

  • To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. 

dollar

noun
  • Money generally. 

  • A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more. 

  • Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. 

  • Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.) 

  • A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality. 

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