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
- Rams are the star sign of Aries.
- The ram became the constellation aries.
- He was identified with the ram and the goose.
- At the site, all the tugs have the barge ram ready.
- The outside of the sphere is covered with pneumatic rams.
- The goat knocked the ram to the ground and trampled on him.
- The battering ram is exhibited in the Checkpoint Charlie museum.
- Pelops was propitiated at night, with the offering of a black ram.
- Among these were the cabal known as the Wolf, the Ram and the Hart.
- Kena Ram Bhagat was a leading merchant and moneylender of Amrapara.
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