stam
Speech parts
1. stam - Noun
2. stam - Verb
Meaning
stam (third-person singular simple present stams, present participle stamming, simple past and past participle stammed)
(UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To confound.
stam
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Confusion.
Stam (uncountable)
(Judaism) collectively, the Jewish ritual scrolls, including holy scrolls, mezuzahs and tefillin
Anagrams
Examples
According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.
On this view the text did not reach its final form until around 700. Some modern scholars use the term Stammaim (from the Hebrew Stam, meaning "closed", "vague" or "unattributed") for the authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara.
Yet women are permitted to inscribe Ketubot (marriage contracts), STaM not intended for ritual use, and other writings of Sofrut beyond simple STaM.
Recently, film theorist Robert Stam challenged whether genres really exist, or whether they are merely made up by critics.
Stam has also asked whether genre analysis should aim at being descriptive or prescriptive.
It's very hard to see how Stam can turn things around.