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Definition of 'ram'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) ram
a male sheep.

2.  ram
(cap.)

3.  ram
any of various devices for crushing, driving, or forcing something, as a battering ram.

4.  ram
(formerly) a heavy beak or spur projecting from the bow of a warship for penetrating the hull of an enemy's ship.

5.  ram
a warship so equipped.

6. (v.t.) ram
to drive or force by heavy blows.

7.  ram
to dash violently against.

8.  ram
to cram; stuff.

9.  ram
to push firmly; force:
to ram a bill through the Senate.

10.  ram
to force (a charge) into a firearm, as with a ramrod.

11. (n.) RAM
volatile computer memory, used for creating, loading, and running programs and for manipulating and temporarily storing data; main memory.

Etymology: (1955–60; r(andom)-a(ccess) m(emory))

Definition of 'ram'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory
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. (noun) Aries, Ram
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

3. (noun) Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram
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. (noun) ram
a tool for driving or forcing something by impact

5. (verb) ram, tup
uncastrated adult male sheep
"a British term is `tup'"

6. (verb) ram, ram down, pound
strike or drive against with a heavy impact
"ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"

7. (verb) force, drive, ram
force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
"She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

8. (verb) crash, ram
undergo damage or destruction on impact
"the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"

9. (verb) jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"

Definition of 'ram'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) ram
to hit with force
The truck rammed the police car.

2. ram
to push into a place with force
He rammed all his clothes into the one suitcase.

Definition of 'ram'

Webster Dictionary

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

2. (noun) ram
aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March

3. (noun) ram
the constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name

4. (noun) ram
an engine of war used for butting or battering

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

6. (noun) ram
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. (noun) ram
a hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic

8. (noun) ram
the weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like

9. (noun) ram
the plunger of a hydraulic press

10. (verb) ram
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. (verb) ram
to fill or compact by pounding or driving

Translation of 'ram'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (abbreviaiton) Random Access Memory; computer memory that is used as a temporary store of data that may be changed or deleted.
Afrikaans: ETG	Arabic: ذاكِرَة الوُصول العَشْوائ	Bulgarian: РАМ памет
Brazilian: RAM	Czech: paměť s přímým přístupem	German: RAM, Speicher
Danish: ram; arbejdslager	Greek: Μνήμη Άμεσης Προσέγγισης	Spanish: RAM
Estonian: RAM (muutmälu)	Farsi: رم؛ حافظه کامپوتر	Finnish: työmuisti
French: RAM	Hebrew: רָאם	Hindi: रैम
Croatian: RAM memorija	Hungarian: közvetlen elérésű tármemó	Indonesian: RAM
Italian: RAM	Japanese: ラム（等速呼出記憶装置）	Korean: [컴퓨터] 램
Lithuanian: tiesioginės kreipties atm	Latvian: (datora) brīvpieejas atmi	Malay: RAM
Dutch: RAM	Norwegian: RAM (direkteminne)	Persian: رم؛ حافظه کامپوتر
Pashto: رم	Russian: память с произвольной выб	Slovak: pamäť typu RAM
Slovenian: RAM, hitri pomnilnik	Serbian: random-memorija	Swedish: RAM-minne
Thai: หน่วยความจำของคอมพิวเตอร์	Turkish: Rastgele Erişimli Bellek	Taiwanese: 隨機存取記憶體
Ukrainian: оперативна пам'ять	Urdu: رینڈم ایکسس میموری	Vietnamese: bộ nhớ truy xuất ngẫu nhi
Chinese: 随机存取存储器
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