ram
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: rams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more ram
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ram
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
pos: noun
gloss: A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
gloss: A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of ramming.
pos: noun
gloss: A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
pos: noun
examples: 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 stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
gloss: To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.
The other ships, either not caring or too badly-damaged to do anything about it, proceed on their mission, with König the last to fall silent, shot to pieces in a last attempt to ram the Bellerophon.
The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
gloss: To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
gloss: To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
gloss: To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.
Again: great to take lessons in ethics from a guy currently trying to ram through a policy of freighting refugees off to cuddly Rwandan president Paul Kagame.
gloss: To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
gloss: To thrust during sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 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
gloss: Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
pos: adj
tags: Northern-England
Related words: ewe
hog
shearling
teg
wether
Derived words: hydraulic ram
ram air
ram air turbine
ram bow
ram-cat
ram cichlid
ramhood
ramjet
ramlike
ramline
rammy
ram-pack
ram-packed
ram press
ram pressure
ramraid
ramrod
ramshorn
ramskin
tunnel ram
water ram
overram
ram home
ram-jam
rammable
rammed earth
rammer
ram something down someone's throat
unram
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