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Princeton's WordNet

  1. random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memorynoun

    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

  2. Aries, Ramnoun

    (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

  3. Aries, Aries the Ram, Ramnoun

    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

  4. ramnoun

    a tool for driving or forcing something by impact

  5. ram, tupverb

    uncastrated adult male sheep

    "a British term is `tup'"

  6. ram, ram down, poundverb

    strike or drive against with a heavy impact

    "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"

  7. force, drive, ramverb

    force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

  8. crash, ramverb

    undergo damage or destruction on impact

    "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"

  9. jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wadverb

    crowd or pack to capacity

    "the theater was jampacked"

Wiktionary

  1. ramnoun

    A male sheep.

  2. ramnoun

    A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

  3. ramnoun

    A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

  4. ramnoun

    A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

  5. ramverb

    To intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.

  6. ramverb

    To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

    After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.

  7. Ramnoun

    someone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

  8. Ramnoun

    Another name for the constellation Aries.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ramnoun

    Etymology: ram , Saxon; ram, Dutch.

    The ewes, being rank, turned to the rams. William Shakespeare.

    An old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram tender. William Shakespeare.

    You may draw the bones of a ram’s head hung with strings of beads and ribbands. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.

    A ram their off’ring, and a ram their meat. Dryden.

    The ram, having pass’d the sea, serenely shines,
    And leads the year. Thomas Creech, Manilius.

    Antony,
    Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
    As the cement of our love,
    To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
    The fortress of it. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

    Judas calling upon the Lord, who without any rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho, gave a fierce assault against the walls. 2 Mac. xii. 15.

  2. To Ramverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Ram thou thy faithful tidings in mine ears,
    That long time have been barren. William Shakespeare.

    Having no artillery nor engines, and finding that he could do no good by ramming with logs of timber, he set one of the gates on fire. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

    The charge with bullet, or paper wet and hard stopped, or with powder alone rammed in hard, maketh no great difference in the loudness of the report. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    A mariner loading his gun, while he was ramming in a cartridge, the powder took fire. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

    Here many poor people roll in vast balls of snow, which they ram together, and cover from the sun shine. Addison.

    A ditch drawn between two parallel furrows, was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    As when that devilish iron engine wrought
    In deepest hell, and fram’d by furies skill,
    With windy nitre and quick sulphur fraught,
    And ramm’d with bullet round ordain’d to kill. Fa. Queen.

    He that proves the king,
    To him will we prove loyal; till that time,
    Have we ramm’d up our gates against the world. William Shakespeare.

    They mined the walls, laid the powder, and rammed the mouth, but the citizens made a countermine. John Hayward.

    This into hollow engines, long and round,
    Thick ramm’d, at th’ other bore with touch of fire
    Dilated and infuriate, shall send forth
    Such implements of mischief, as shall dash
    To pieces. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi.

    Leave a convenient space behind the wall to ram in clay. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

Wikipedia

  1. ram

    Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older magnetic tapes and drum memory), where the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement. RAM contains multiplexing and demultiplexing circuitry, to connect the data lines to the addressed storage for reading or writing the entry. Usually more than one bit of storage is accessed by the same address, and RAM devices often have multiple data lines and are said to be "8-bit" or "16-bit", etc. devices.In today's technology, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuit (IC) chips with MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) memory cells. RAM is normally associated with volatile types of memory where stored information is lost if power is removed. The two main types of volatile random-access semiconductor memory are static random-access memory (SRAM) and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). Non-volatile RAM has also been developed and other types of non-volatile memories allow random access for read operations, but either do not allow write operations or have other kinds of limitations on them. These include most types of ROM and a type of flash memory called NOR-Flash. Use of semiconductor RAM dated back to 1965, when IBM introduced the monolithic (single-chip) 16-bit SP95 SRAM chip for their System/360 Model 95 computer, and Toshiba used discrete DRAM memory cells for its 180-bit Toscal BC-1411 electronic calculator, both based on bipolar transistors. While it offered improved performance over magnetic-core memory, bipolar DRAM could not compete with the lower price of the then-dominant magnetic-core memory.MOS memory, based on MOS transistors, was developed in the late 1960s, and was the basis for all early commercial semiconductor memory. The first commercial DRAM IC chip, the 1K Intel 1103, was introduced in October 1970. Synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) later debuted with the Samsung KM48SL2000 chip in 1992.

ChatGPT

  1. ram

    RAM, or Random Access Memory, is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, meaning any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes. It is a volatile memory, which means it loses its data when the device is turned off or restarted. RAM allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory, making it an essential component for a computer or digital device to function efficiently and quickly. It is often considered the "working memory" of the device, as it temporarily holds all the data the system needs at the present moment and in the near future.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ramnoun

    the male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup

  2. Ramnoun

    aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March

  3. Ramnoun

    the constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name

  4. Ramnoun

    an engine of war used for butting or battering

  5. Ramnoun

    in ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram

  6. Ramnoun

    a heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak

  7. Ramnoun

    a hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic

  8. Ramnoun

    the weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like

  9. Ramnoun

    the plunger of a hydraulic press

  10. Ramverb

    to butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc

  11. Ramverb

    to fill or compact by pounding or driving

  12. Etymology: [AS. ramm, ram; akin to OHG. & D. ram, Prov. G. ramm, and perh. to Icel. ramr strong.]

Wikidata

  1. RAM

    RAM is a mizik rasin band based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The band derives its name from the initials of its founder, songwriter, and lead male vocalist, Richard A. Morse. The band's music has been described by Morse as "Vodou rock 'n' roots", and has been one of the prominent bands in the mizik rasin musical movement in Haiti. RAM began performing together in 1990, and recorded their first album in 1996. The band's music incorporates traditional Vodou lyrics and instruments, such as rara horns and petwo drums, into modern rock and roll. The band's songs include lyrics in Kréyòl, French, and English. RAM is famous for its regular Thursday night performances at the Hotel Oloffson in downtown Port-au-Prince, attended by hotel guests and a wide spectrum of the country's political and racial groups. During the years of the military junta of Raoul Cédras, one of the band's singles, "Fèy", was banned nationwide by the military authorities who perceived it to be a song of support for the exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The band continued to play weekly concerts in defiance of death threats from the regime until Morse only narrowly escaped a kidnapping from the hotel in 1994. The band began recording albums in 1996, after United States military intervention restored Aristide to power. In 1998, the band clashed with the newly elected mayor of Port-au-Prince, a supporter of Aristide, and survived an assassination attempt during their Carnival performance. Through its song lyrics, RAM continues to provoke the antagonism of both the supporters of Aristide and former military regimes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ram

    ram, n. a male sheep, a tup: (astron.) Aries (q.v.), one of the signs of the zodiac: an engine of war for battering, with a head like that of a ram: a hydraulic engine, called water-ram: a ship-of-war armed with a heavy iron beak for running down a hostile vessel.—v.t. to thrust with violence, as a ram with its head: to force together: to drive hard down:—pr.p. ram′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. rammed.—n. Ram′-head, an iron lever for raising great stones: a cuckold. [A.S. ram, rom; Ger. ramm.]

  2. Ram

    ram, adj. strong-scented: (used as a prefix) very.—n. Ram′-cat, a tom-cat.—adj. Ram′mish, strong-scented: lewd.—n. Ram′mishness.—adj. Ram′my. [Ice. ramr, strong, as Ice. ramliga, strongly.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ram

    A long spar, iron-hooped at the ends, used for driving out blocks from beneath a vessel's keel, and for driving planks an end while only wedged to the ship's side. Also, a new rating in the navy. (See STEAM-RAM.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. ram

    To push home the charge of a gun; also, the corresponding word of command.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RAM

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ram is ranked #8547 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Ram surname appeared 3,853 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Ram.

    61.7% or 2,378 total occurrences were Asian.
    14.6% or 563 total occurrences were White.
    9.2% or 355 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    8.6% or 332 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    5.1% or 197 total occurrences were Black.
    0.7% or 28 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RAM' in Nouns Frequency: #2997

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAM in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of RAM in a Sentence

  1. Howard Aiken:

    Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

  2. Vinay Srivastava:

    I want to ask Yogi to put his hand on his heart and ask himself if he has done the right thing, lord Ram doesn't need a temple as much as the country needs a proper government.

  3. Roger Stone:

    There was no need to have 29 FBI agents with assault weapons and side arms and hand grenades and a battering ram to smash in my front door, they could simply have called my attorney and I would have surrendered voluntarily.

  4. John Fetterman:

    Stop apologizing for the space we take up as a party and ram some stuff through and get it done.

  5. Michaelle May Whalen via Storyful:

    I've always wanted a Dodge Ram since I was a little kid, and I finally was able to get one. And I just made my third car payment and – bam.

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