ramp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
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cricket
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games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
skating
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: ramps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ramps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ramping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ramped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ramped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
pos: noun
gloss: An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
pos: noun
gloss: A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.
gloss: A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A scale of values.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
We have created a volume ramp. Play the section in the Timeline and listen to the volume change.
gloss: A speed bump.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of violent robbery.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A deliberate swindle or fraud.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A leap or bound.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
pos: noun
gloss: To behave violently; to rage.
pos: verb
examples: Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,
gloss: To swindle or rob violently.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.
gloss: To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
slang
transitive
gloss: To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Their bridles they would champe, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely rampe.
I've seen a ramping equestrian statue of General St. Clare on the Embankment.
The shield was the colour of silver and across it there ramped a red lion, as bright as a ripe strawberry at the moment when you pick it.
gloss: To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]
With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, […] and so ramping upon trees, […]they mount up to a great height.
gloss: To stand in a rampant position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And that lyon gaped wyde and came vpon hym raumppynge to haue slayne hym.
gloss: To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: If Q(t)lt;qᵖ then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.
The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.
gloss: To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
pos: verb
Related words: rampage
rampant
Derived words: banker's ramp
boat ramp
exit ramp
ghost ramp
jump ramp
miniramp
moving ramp
off-ramp
onramp
on-ramp
parking ramp
ramp ceremony
rampie
rampless
ramplike
rampman
ramp meter
rampspeed
ramp travel index
ramp-up
rampway
runaway truck ramp
ski ramp nose
ski-ramp nose
spine ramp
vert ramp
wheelchair ramp
deramp
rampable
ramp along
ramper
ramp up
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