Definitions for RAM

RAM ram

Spelling: [ram]
IPA: /ræm/

Ram is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in RAM (amr).

Definitions for RAM

noun

  1. a male sheep.
  2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or sign of Aries.
  3. any of various devices for battering, crushing, driving, or forcing something, especially a battering ram.
  4. (formerly) a heavy beak or spur projecting from the bow of a warship for penetrating the hull of an enemy's ship.
  5. (formerly) a warship so equipped, especially one used primarily for ramming enemy vessels.
  6. the heavy weight that strikes the blow in a pile driver or the like.
  7. a piston, as on a hydraulic press.
  8. a reciprocating part of certain machine tools, as the toolholder of a slotter or shaper.
  9. hydraulic ram.
  10. random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.

verb (used with object)

  1. to drive or force by heavy blows.
  2. to strike with great force; dash violently against:
  3. to cram; stuff:
  4. to push firmly:
  5. to force (a charge) into a firearm, as with a ramrod.

Origin of RAM

before 900; Middle English: male sheep, machine for ramming, Old English ram(m); cognate with Dutch, Low German ram, German Ramme; (v.) Middle English rammen, derivative of the noun; compare

Examples for RAM

Then I went down and got that constable and he come and executed on that ram.

And they'll ram Truth down your throat till you're sick of it.

And then the ram is caught by its horns in the bush and is sacrificed instead.

Encouraged by this success, Audi, Grand Cherokee and ram all have plans to launch diesel vehicles going forward.

Sales of the ram Truck line were up 29 percent year over year, whiles sales of the Dodge Durango SUV were up 117 percent.

They wanted to ram that fact down the throat of would-be rivals, like the Russians, and even longtime friends, like the French.

One man got his family into a boat to go to ram Island for safety.

Where and when and why did Russ meet ram Dass, for goodness sakes?

He tried to ram the German ship with the stern of his ship, but failed in the attempt.

He raised the fence-rail again and made as if to ram the door.

Word Value for RAM
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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