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Ram   /ræm/   Listen
Ram

noun
1.
The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible.  Synonyms: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, read/write memory.
2.
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries.  Synonym: Aries.
3.
The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19.  Synonyms: Aries, Aries the Ram.
4.
A tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
5.
Uncastrated adult male sheep.  Synonym: tup.
verb
(past & past part. rammed; pres. part. ramming)
1.
Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.  Synonyms: pound, ram down.  "Pound on the door"
2.
Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: drive, force.  "He drives me mad"
3.
Undergo damage or destruction on impact.  Synonym: crash.  "The car crashed into the lamp post"
4.
Crowd or pack to capacity.  Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, wad.



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"Ram" Quotes from Famous Books



... June, and cut up after it has begun to lose its weight slightly, and shocked up closely, bound round the top with straw, and then allowed to stand till wanted for feeding. To have healthy sheep, do not use a ram under two, or over six or seven years old, and raise no lambs from unhealthy ewes or rams. The expense of keeping sheep, as all other animals, is much less when they are kept warm. Much feed is wasted in keeping up animal heat, which would ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden
... Risdon? We have plenty at the farm, and it was on'y day 'fore yes'day as I was out in my little lugger, and we'd took a lot o' mackrel! 'Ram,' I says to my boy Ramillies, 'think Sir Risdon would mind if I sent him a few fish up ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn
... from highest heaven to the trembling earth. And of that fact the one end is one poor man's cry, and the other end is his deliverance. The moving spring of the divine manifestation was an individual's prayer; the aim of it was the individual's deliverance. A little water is put into a hydraulic ram at the right place, and the outcome is the lifting of tons. So the helpless men who could only pray are stronger than Herod and his quaternions and his chains and his gates. 'Prayer was made,' ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... was added the fact that not only all materialism took possession of Darwinism as the irresistible battering-ram which, as they said, forever demolishes the whole fortress of theism and buries under its ruins all those who take refuge in this decaying castle, but that even naturalists let themselves be carried ...
— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid
... his feet. Almost at the same instant my ears distinguished the sharp chugging of an engine straight ahead; then came his shout of alarm, "God, A'mighty! Dar's de keel-boat, sah. Dey's goin' fer ter ram us!" ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish


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