¹ram

noun \ˈram\

: an adult male sheep

: a piece of machinery that is used to hit or lift something else

Full Definition of RAM

a : a male sheep

b capitalized : aries

a : battering ram

b : a warship with a heavy beak at the prow for piercing an enemy ship

: any of various guided pieces for exerting pressure or for driving or forcing something by impact: as

a : the plunger of a hydrostatic press or force pump

b : the weight that strikes the blow in a pile driver

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Origin of RAM

Middle English, from Old English ramm; akin to Old High German ram

First Known Use: before 12th century

Other Mammals Terms

dormouse, dugong, gibbon, grimalkin, sable, stoat, ungulate, vole

Rhymes with RAM

bam, cam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, DRAM, flam, gam, gram, ham, Ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, ma'am, pram, RAM, Sam, SAM, scam, scram, sham, slam, spam, tam, tram, wham, yam

²ram

verb

: to forcefully hit something

: to cause (something) to forcefully hit something

: to push (something) into a position or place with force

rammedram·ming

Full Definition of RAM

intransitive verb

: to strike with violence : crash

: to move with extreme rapidity

transitive verb

: to force in by or as if by driving

a : to make compact (as by pounding)

b : cram, crowd

: to force passage or acceptance of <ram home an idea>

: to strike against violently

— ram·mer noun

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Origin of RAM

Middle English rammen, probably from ram, noun

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to RAM

Synonyms: bang, bash, bump, collide, crash, impact, impinge, knock, hit, slam, smash, strike, swipe, thud

Antonyms: crawl, creep, poke

RAM

noun \ˈram\

computers : the part of a computer in which information is stored temporarily when a program is being used

Full Definition of RAM

: a computer memory on which data can be both read and written and on which the location of data does not affect the speed of its retrieval; especially : RAM that acts as the main storage available to the user for programs and data —called also random-access memory — compare rom

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