ram
IPA: rˈæm
noun
- (zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
- A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
- (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
- (military, nautical, chiefly historical) 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.
- The father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron (biblical figure).
- A male given name.
- A surname.
- One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.
- A US Korean War anti-tank weapon
- (electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.
- (computer science) Acronym of random-access machine.
- (physical sciences) Acronym of relative atomic mass. (sometimes styled r.a.m.) [(physics) The ratio of the average mass per atom of the naturally occurring form of an element to 1/12 of the mass of a carbon-12 atom. Symbol Aᵣ; abbreviation RAM or r.a.m. For elements with several isotopes, the most stable isotope is treated as the representative.]
- (project management) Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.
- (risk management) Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.
- (military) Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.
- Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.
- Initialism of Rise Above Movement.
- Variant of Rāma, an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism. [(Hinduism) A mythological king of Ayodhya in ancient India, considered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and a lila-avatara described in Bhagavata Purana; one of the most worshipped Hindu deities.]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
- (transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- (transitive) To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
- (transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- (slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.
adjective
- (Northern England) Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
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Examples of "ram" in Sentences
- She killed a huge, full-curl mountain ram a couple years back.
- The ram is generally a conventional double acting cylinder for positioning purposes.
- Say a 4 Socket Opteron server with 64GB/128GB of ram is pretty cheap now (under 10K).
- Most do-it-yourself hunters operating on a limited budget, however, will agree that any legal ram is a trophy.
- I bet FOX "news" and See Nearly Nothing don't use the phrase "ram it down our throats" to describe this measure.
- The sight of a Dall sheep ram is enough to haunt a hunter: It conjures visions of the long, grueling stalks ahead of you.
- My database will soon pass 100GB and no doubt 500GB by the end of next year … I need to keep as much of it in ram as possible and also spread it out over other machines.
- My GOH liaison, the lovely Laura, came to the con with a cage of bats, which was pretty cool as well, and I met a couple of readers from Bulgaria who told me that in my Bulgarian editions, "battering ram" is translated with the word for a male sheep.
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