Pronunciations (13)
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/ɹæm/
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/ɹam/
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/ɾam/
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- Scotland
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/ɹæm/
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- Canada
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[ɹæm]
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[ɹeə̯m]
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[ɹɛə̯m]
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/ɹæːm/
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- Australia
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[ɹæːm]
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[ɹeːm]
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[ɹɛːm]
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/ɹɛm/
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ɹæm
Noun
A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
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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.
A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
Usage- Historical
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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.
A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
Usage- Historical
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.
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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."
Verb
To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
A large stone rammed her head
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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.
To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
Usage- Transitive
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To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
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After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
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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.
To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
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They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
To thrust during sexual intercourse.
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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
Adjective
Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
Usage- Northern-England
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Noun
a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
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uncastrated adult male sheep
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a British term is ‘tup’
Verb
strike or drive against with a heavy impact
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ram the gate with a sledgehammer
pound on the door
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
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She rammed her mind into focus
He drives me mad
undergo damage or destruction on impact
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the plane crashed into the ocean
The car crashed into the lamp post
crowd or pack to capacity
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the theater was jampacked