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RAM¹
- /ɹæm/
Sounds like ram · Rhymes with -æm
noun RAMs
- Acronym of random-access memory.random-access memory Looking for the best RAM for your PC in 2023 has gotten a little bit more complicated than before. With the advent of DDR5, you can now choose between a newer standard, and an older one. DDR4 has a differently keyed connector, and you’re also going to have to check that the RAM is compatible with yo
- Acronym of random-access machine.random-access machine
- Acronym of relative atomic mass; sometimes styled r.a.m..relative atomic mass
- Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.responsibility assignment matrix
- Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.reliability availability maintainability
- Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.radar-absorbent material
proper noun
- Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.Royal Academy of Music
- Initialism of Rise Above Movement.Rise Above Movement
ram²
- /ɹæm/ UK
- /ɹam/ British, Northern England, Southern, Standard
- /ɾam/ Scotland, Wales
- /ɹæm/ Canada, US
- [ɹæm]
- [ɹeə̯m] ~ [ɹɛə̯m]
- /ɹæːm/ Australia
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- [ɹeːm] ~ [ɹɛːm]
- /ɹɛm/ New Zealand
Sounds like RAM, rhamn · Rhymes with -æm
Where it comes from
From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).
noun rams
- A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
- A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors. The solid oak door—he fingered it again—was as though made to resist a ram, the walls built to withstand a siege, and every stone and brick in wall, bench, or floor was as immovable as the face of a rock.
- A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them. About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.
- A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
- A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
- An act of ramming.
- A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill. He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the s
ram³
- /ɹæm/ UK
- /ɹam/ British, Northern England, Southern, Standard
- /ɾam/ Scotland, Wales
- /ɹæm/ Canada, US
- [ɹæm]
- [ɹeə̯m] ~ [ɹɛə̯m]
- /ɹæːm/ Australia
- [ɹæːm]
- [ɹeːm] ~ [ɹɛːm]
- /ɹɛm/ New Zealand
Sounds like RAM, rhamn · Rhymes with -æm
Where it comes from
From Middle English rammen, from the noun (see above). Compare Old High German rammen.
verb rams · ramming · rammed
- To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
- To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement. To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
- To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking. After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
- To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something. I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.
- To fill or compact by pounding or driving. They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
- To thrust during sexual intercourse. 1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more
ram⁴
- /ɹæm/ UK
- /ɹam/ British, Northern England, Southern, Standard
- /ɾam/ Scotland, Wales
- /ɹæm/ Canada, US
- [ɹæm]
- [ɹeə̯m] ~ [ɹɛə̯m]
- /ɹæːm/ Australia
- [ɹæːm]
- [ɹeːm] ~ [ɹɛːm]
- /ɹɛm/ New Zealand
Sounds like RAM, rhamn · Rhymes with -æm
Where it comes from
Likely from Old Norse ramr, rammr (“strong, rank, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong, overbearing; acrid, rank”), perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above. Compare Scots ram (“a rank odour”). Compare also Middle English rammish (“rank, offensive in smell”).
adjective more ram · most ram
- Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
ram⁵
- /ɹæm/ UK
- /ɹam/ British, Northern England, Southern, Standard
- /ɾam/ Scotland, Wales
- /ɹæm/ Canada, US
- [ɹæm]
- [ɹeə̯m] ~ [ɹɛə̯m]
- /ɹæːm/ Australia
- [ɹæːm]
- [ɹeːm] ~ [ɹɛːm]
- /ɹɛm/ New Zealand
Sounds like RAM, rhamn · Rhymes with -æm
noun
- Alternative form of rambo.rambo
Ram⁶
Where it comes from
From ram, the animal the constellation is figured as. Football sense, the animal of the mascot for the sports team.
proper noun the Ram
- The constellation and zodiac sign Aries. Aries, or the Ram governeth the head.
- Someone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Ram⁷
Where it comes from
From Hebrew רָם (ram).
proper noun
- The father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron.
- A male given name.
- A surname
- One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.
Ram⁸
Where it comes from
From ram (“strike forcefully”).
noun Rams
- A US Korean War anti-tank weapon.
Ram⁹
proper noun
- Alternative form of Rāma (“an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism”).Rāma
