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 →

2) To spam means to send lots of unwanted messages, or to post the same thing again and again. tree →

3) Spam is a brand of tinned cooked pork meat. tree →

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 →
• Never click links in spam. tree →
• Stop spamming the chat with emojis! tree →
• He kept spamming the same attack in the game. tree →
• The spam said I had won a prize, but it was a trick. tree →
• Grandad remembers eating Spam sandwiches. tree →
• Report the account if it sends spam. tree →

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.
• A spam filter can give points to warning words and flag a message when its points reach a set number.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spam» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.