cram
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
Etymology: From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
Inflected forms:
form: crams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
But you still need to check in with the Arch Linux community now and then to make sure that none of their crazy shit is going to be crammed down your throat the next update.
Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'
The storm has passed when I arrive at Southampton Central, but more fun is to come. The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they have just come off a cruise liner.
gloss: To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The boy crammed himself with cake
gloss: To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
gloss: To study hard; to swot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
pos: verb
tags: British
dated
intransitive
slang
gloss: To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
pos: verb
tags: British
dated
slang
transitive
gloss: The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But Billy Bunter was only the first in the field. As the news spread, there was a crowd, not to call it a cram, in No. 7 Study: […]
gloss: Information hastily memorized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: a cram from an examination
gloss: A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lie; a falsehood.
pos: noun
tags: British
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.
Shut up, and don't tell crams.
gloss: A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
Pen pals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams. In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet.
Related words: cram-cram
Derived words: cramdown
cram-full
cram it
crammable
crammer
cram-packed
cram school
cram session
cram together
overcram
uncram
uncrammed
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