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Ramp   /ræmp/   Listen
Ramp

noun
1.
An inclined surface connecting two levels.  Synonym: incline.
2.
North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers.  Synonyms: Allium tricoccum, wild leek.
3.
A movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft.
verb
(past & past part. ramped; pres. part. ramping)
1.
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger.  Synonyms: rage, storm.
2.
Furnish with a ramp.
3.
Be rampant.
4.
Creep up -- used especially of plants.
5.
Stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing.



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"Ramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... swallowed the tender-truck, and them. The vehicle stopped. An elevator accepted them and lifted an indefinite distance through the night, toward the stars. A sort of gangplank with a canvas siderail reached out across emptiness. Cochrane crossed it, and found himself at the bottom of a spiral ramp inside the rocket's passenger-compartment. A stewardess looked at the tickets. She led ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... are in the Prefecture, a coldly handsome building of the eighteenth century, and there, in a majestic stone vestibule, beneath the gilded ramp of a great festal staircase, we waited in anxious suspense, among the orderlies and estafettes, while our unusual request was considered. The result of the deliberation, was an expression of regret: nothing could ...
— Fighting France - From Dunkerque to Belport • Edith Wharton
... way with infinite care through the hordes of ex-soldiers clamoring for passage back to the multitudinous planets from which they had come. Then he slowly climbed the heavy ramp ...
— The Stutterer • R.R. Merliss
... peered over. The lower ramp of the wall sloped steeply, but all the way up the sharp southwest corner the stones were broken out, and a goat, or a very active man could ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... Hardy, take two bugles out of the chest, and then take these lads—What's your name, boys? Eh? Scudamore? A vera gude name—take them over to Corporal Skinner, he will be practicing with the others on the ramp." ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty


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