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RAM
/ɹæm/
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What does RAM mean?
noun
- A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
- A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
- A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
More meanings (28)
noun
- An act of ramming.
- A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
- (slang) Alternative form of rambo.
- Acronym of random-access memory.
- Acronym of random-access machine.
- Acronym of relative atomic mass; sometimes styled r.a.m..
- Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.
- Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.
- Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.
- A US Korean War anti-tank weapon.
- (historical) A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
- (historical) A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
verb
- To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
- To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
- (figuratively) To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
- To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- (slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.
adjective
- Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
proper noun
- Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.
- Initialism of Rise Above Movement.
- The constellation and zodiac sign Aries.
- Someone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- The father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron.
- A male given name.
- A surname
- One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.
- Alternative form of Rāma (“an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism”).
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He ran up to her and butted her playfully with his curly head, like a little ram, but his voice was quite desperate.
As the creation of this ram had been extraordinary, so also was the use to which all parts of his carcass were put.
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Meeting a friend soon afterwards, "Come," said he, "to the kennel, and see what rare sport the ram is making among the hounds."
He was very much interested, and all the more so when he heard from Ram Dass of the adventure of the monkey on the roof.
In the ox and ram, small calculi collect in the S-shaped curvature of the urethra, or at its terminal extremity.