1
a
: a male sheep
b
capitalized
: aries
2
a
b
: a warship with a heavy beak at the prow for piercing an enemy ship
3
: any of various guided pieces for exerting pressure or for driving or forcing something by impact: such as
a
: the plunger of a hydrostatic press or force pump
b
: the weight that strikes the blow in a pile driver
rammed; ramming
1
: to force in by or as if by driving
3
: to force passage or acceptance of
ram home an idea
4
: to strike against violently
rammer
noun
: 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
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Examples of ram in a Sentence
Verb
They deliberately rammed my car from behind.
The car slid and rammed against the wall.
He deliberately rammed his car into mine.
She rammed her fist against the wall in anger.
She rammed the cork into the barrel.
He opened the chute and rammed the clothes down.
Noun (2)
My computer is slow because it needs more RAM.
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New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
Gus Edwards was one of the fiercest battering rams ever to wear the purple and black.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
The theory advanced in favor of remaking the system in order to ram through Trump’s cabinet picks is that our institutions are so corrupt that the system itself needs a kind of shock treatment that can only be administered by people too radically antiestablishment to pass Senate scrutiny.
—The Editors, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Driving that ram rotor requires energy, and that's going to impact efficiency.
—New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
Gus Edwards was one of the fiercest battering rams ever to wear the purple and black.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Verb
Still, with a narrow majority in Congress, multiple reports suggest the president-elect is reluctant to expend too much political capital on ramming Hegseth through the Senate and has begun exploring alternatives.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
The theory advanced in favor of remaking the system in order to ram through Trump’s cabinet picks is that our institutions are so corrupt that the system itself needs a kind of shock treatment that can only be administered by people too radically antiestablishment to pass Senate scrutiny.
—The Editors, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Ram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ram. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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ram
1 of 3 noun1
: a male sheep
2
ram
2 of 3 verb
rammed; ramming
1
: to strike or strike against with violence : crash
2
: to force in, down, or through by or as if by driving or pressing
rammer
noun
Medical Definition
ram
noun
: a male sheep
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