cAMP

noun camps

1. countable, uncountable An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures. Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
2. countable, uncountable An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
3. countable, uncountable A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. Near-synonym: encampment
4. countable, uncountable A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death. Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp
5. countable, uncountable A single hut or shelter. a hunter’s camp
6. collective, countable, uncountable The company or body of persons encamped. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
7. collective, countable, uncountable A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings. Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup
8. countable, obsolete, uncountable An army. My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:
9. Australia, countable, uncountable A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day. ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs.
10. abbreviation, clipping, countable, uncommon, uncountable Clipping of campus
11. countable, slang, uncountable Any prison or prison camp. Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.
12. countable, misconstruction, uncountable Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).clamp
13. British, India, countable, uncountable Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively. Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep.
14. countable, obsolete, uncountable Conflict; battle.
15. countable, uncountable An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
16. collective, countable, uncountable A colony or other group of bats. The house owner got panic after seeing the camp of bats.

verb camps · camping · camped

1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
2. To set up a camp.
3. transitive To afford rest or lodging for. Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
4. intransitive To stay in an advantageous location. Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.
5. transitive To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage. The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
6. Australia, intransitive Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place. The bullocks camped in front on the big fire, with the black line of trees facing them.
7. abbreviation, ellipsis, transitive Ellipsis of corpse camp.corpse camp
8. intransitive, obsolete To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete. 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ː Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.
9. intransitive, obsolete To wrangle; argue.

noun

1. uncountable An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style. Near-synonyms: campness, campiness

adjective camper · campest

1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
2. Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate. More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]
3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying. In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

Similar: campy, campish

verb camps · camping · camped

1. To behave in a camp manner. Oster and his two co-stars, Jamie MacKenzie and Bill Martel, boogie and bop, sway and swish, camp and croon through tightly worked production numbers addressing a range of serious (and not so serious) issues that middle class, urban gay men come up against.

noun camps

1. countable, slang, uncountable The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
2. countable, slang, uncountable An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
3. countable, slang, uncountable The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.

noun

1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of cyclic AMP.cyclic AMP

proper noun Camps

1. countable, uncountable A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
2. countable, uncountable A surname.
3. countable, uncountable A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
5. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Camp County

proper noun

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.Central Atlantic magmatic province

noun CAMPs

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of continuous airworthiness maintenance program