ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: ramps
Etymology: From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp.
Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
Senses: glosses: An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
glosses: An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
glosses: A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
examples: text: He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
examples: text: The RGB model uses the color component of light sources in order to produce more realistic and pleasant results. Internal color representations are always based on a palette-based color ramp.
ref: 2003, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, page 915:
text: We have created a volume ramp. Play the section in the Timeline and listen to the volume change.
ref: 2013, Sam Kauffmann, Ashley Kennedy, Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, page 40:
glosses: A scale of values.
glosses: A speed bump.
glosses: An act of violent robbery.
examples: text: We are surely not meant to think of the sense of “ramp” (from 1819) that means a deliberate swindle or fraud, such as announcing that you have done more tests than you actually have because a third were just posted out.
ref: 1819, Steven Poole, Steven Poole's word of the week:
glosses: A deliberate swindle or fraud.
glosses: A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
glosses: A leap or bound.
glosses: A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
Derived terms: banker's ramp
boat ramp
exit ramp
ghost ramp
jump ramp
moving ramp
off-ramp
on-ramp
parking ramp
ramp ceremony
rampie
rampless
ramplike
ramp travel index
ramp-up
runaway truck ramp
ski ramp nose
ski-ramp nose
spine ramp
vert ramp
wheelchair ramp