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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



... and the east conflagrations roared and crackled, where burning oil had been scattered over some remaining structures near the walls. When a great ram began its thunder somewhere near the Sheep Gate, there came a hollow booming noise of deafening volume from the charnel pits outside the walls and a black cloud of incredible depth soared up into ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... the Merrimac bore down on the Monitor now to ram and sink her at a blow. The nimble craft side stepped the avalanche of iron, turned quickly and attempted to jamb her nose into the steering gear of the ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... shields of Scottish nobles. There were beasts that could be recognised at once, and these were sparingly named; but others were astounding, and above them were inscribed titles such as these: Shoe-lyon, Musket, Ostray; and one fearsome animal in the centre was designated the Ram of Arabia. This display of heraldry and natural history was reinforced by the cardinal virtues in seventeenth century dress: Charitas as an elderly female of extremely forbidding aspect, receiving two very imperfectly clad children; and Temperantia ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... he's busted my best teeth in. Hunt round and find something for a battering ram," cried another voice, but though the assailants had possibly not caught all the answer, they evidently understood the strength of our position, for we heard them ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... so school was dismissed for the day. Peter didn't go straight home. Instead he went up to the Old Pasture for another look at the old ram there and tried to picture to himself just what Bighorn must look like. Especially he looked at the hoofs ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess


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