to strike with great force; dash violently against: The car went out of control and rammed the truck.
to cram; stuff: They rammed the gag in his mouth.
to push firmly: to ram a bill through the Senate.
to force (a charge) into a firearm, as with a ramrod.
Origin of ram
1
before 900;Middle English: male sheep, machine for ramming, Old Englishram(m); cognate with Dutch,Low Germanram,GermanRamme; (v.) Middle Englishrammen, derivative of the noun; compare Old High Germanrammen
Related formsram·like, adjectiveun·rammed, adjective
a confidence man's associate who acts as a decoy; confederate; shill.
Origin of ram
2
1940–45; origin obscure; British criminal argotramp swindle (earlier, as v.: snatch, tear) is a phonetically implausible source
RAM
[ram]
noun
random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
Also called: rostrum, beaka pointed projection in the stem of an ancient warship for puncturing the hull of enemy ships
a warship equipped with a ram
slanga sexually active man
verbrams, rammingorrammed
(tr usually foll by into) to force or drive, as by heavy blowsto ram a post into the ground
(of a moving object) to crash with force (against another object) or (of two moving objects) to collide in this waythe ships rammed the enemy
(tr ; often foll by in or down)to stuff or cram (something into a hole, etc)
(tr ; foll by onto, against etc)to thrust violentlyhe rammed the books onto the desk
(tr)to present (an idea, argument, etc) forcefully or aggressively (esp in the phrase ram (something) down someone's throat)
(tr)to drive (a charge) into a firearm
Derived Formsrammer, noun
Word Origin for ram
Old English ramm; related to Old High German ram ram, Old Norse ramr fierce, rimma to fight
Ram
noun
the Ramthe constellation Aries, the first sign of the zodiac
RAM
1
n acronym forcomputing
random access memory: semiconductor memory in which all storage locations can be rapidly accessed in the same amount of time. It forms the main memory of a computer, used by applications to perform tasks while the device is operating
Old English ramm "male sheep," also "battering ram" and the zodiac sign; earlier rom "male sheep," a West Germanic word (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German ram), of unknown origin. Perhaps [Klein] connected with Old Norse rammr "strong," Old Church Slavonic ramenu "impetuous, violent."
RAM
n.
1957, acronym for random access memory (computerese).
v.
"to beat with a heavy implement," c.1300, from ram (n.). Related: Rammed; ramming.
Short for random access memory. The main memory of a computer, in which data can be stored or retrieved from all locations at the same (usually very high) speed. See also dynamic RAMstatic RAM.
Acronym for random access memory, which is a type of memory in which a reader can go to a specific item without having to start at the beginning. Random access memories can often be altered once an item is found. (Seecomputer memoryandmagnetic memory storage; compareROM.)
