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Definition of 'Ramp' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) ramp
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.

2.  ramp
any extensive sloping walk or passageway.

3.  ramp
a short concave slope or bend, as one connecting the higher and lower parts of a staircase railing at a landing.

4.  ramp
the act of ramping.

5. (v.i.) ramp
to rise or rear with arms or forelegs raised as if to spring.

6.  ramp
to leap or dash with fury.

7.  ramp
to act violently; rage; storm:
to ramp and rage.

8. (v.t.) ramp
to provide with a ramp.

9. (Usu.,) ramp
a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of E North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers.

Etymology:  (1530–40; back formation from ramps wild garlic, var. of rams < ME < OE hramsa broad-leafed garlic)

Definition of 'Ramp' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) ramp, incline
an inclined surface connecting two levels

2. (noun) ramp, wild leek, Allium tricoccum
North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers

3. (verb) ramp
a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft

4. (verb) ramp, rage, storm
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

5. (verb) ramp
furnish with a ramp
"The ramped auditorium"

6. (verb) ramp
be rampant
"the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"

7. (verb) ramp
creep up -- used especially of plants
"The roses ramped over the wall"

8. (verb) ramp
stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing


Definition of 'Ramp' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) ramp
a slope that connects two levels
a ramp for wheelchair users

2.  ramp
a road leading onto or off a highway
to take the exit/entrance ramp


Definition of 'Ramp' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Ramp
a leap; a spring; a hostile advance

2. (noun) Ramp
a highwayman; a robber

3. (noun) Ramp
a romping woman; a prostitute

4. (noun) Ramp
any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase

5. (noun) Ramp
a short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction

6. (noun) Ramp
an inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels

7. (verb) Ramp
to spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp

8. (verb) Ramp
to move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence

9. (verb) Ramp
to climb, as a plant; to creep up


Translation of 'Ramp' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a sloping surface between places, objects etc which are at different levels
The car drove up the ramp from the quay to the ship.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: oprit Arabic flag Arabic: مُنْحَدَر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: склон
Brazilian flag Brazilian: rampa Czech flag Czech: rampa German flag German: die Rampe
Danish flag Danish: rampe; sliske Greek flag Greek: ράμπα Spanish flag Spanish: rampa
Estonian flag Estonian: kallak(pind) Farsi flag Farsi: سراشیبی؛ Finnish flag Finnish: ramppi
French flag French: rampe (d'accès) Hebrew flag Hebrew: רַמפָּה Hindi flag Hindi: ढलान
Croatian flag Croatian: rampa Hungarian flag Hungarian: felhajtó, rámpa Indonesian flag Indonesian: lereng landai
Icelandic flag Icelandic: rampur, skábraut Italian flag Italian: rampa Japanese flag Japanese: 傾斜路
Korean flag Korean: (높이가 다른 두 면을 잇는) 사면 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nuožulnuma, pandusas, ram Latvian flag Latvian: traps; slīpums
Malay flag Malay: pendakian Dutch flag Dutch: oprit Norwegian flag Norwegian: rampe, opp-/nedkjørsel
Polish flag Polish: rampa, podjazd Persian flag Persian: سراشیبی؛ Pashto flag Pashto: زينه،پاتخه، دزينى پوړۍ، ر
Portuguese flag Portuguese: rampa Romanian flag Romanian: rampă de acces Russian flag Russian: скат, уклон
Slovak flag Slovak: rampa Slovenian flag Slovenian: klančina Serbian flag Serbian: rampa
Swedish flag Swedish: ramp Thai flag Thai: ทางลาด Turkish flag Turkish: rampa
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 斜坡 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: спад, схил Urdu flag Urdu: ڈھال
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đoạn đường dốc Chinese flag Chinese: 斜坡

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