Definitions for RAMP

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RAMP ramp

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IPA: /ræmp/

Ramp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in RAMP (ampr).

Definitions for RAMP

noun

1. a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
2. a short concave slope or bend, as one connecting the higher and lower parts of a staircase railing at a landing.
3. any extensive sloping walk or passageway.
4. the act of ramping.
5. Also called boarding ramp. a movable staircase for entering or leaving a cabin door of an airplane.
6. Also called parking ramp. apron (def 6).
7. a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of eastern North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers; eaten raw or used as a flavoring in cooked foods.

Verb phrases

1. ramp along, Nautical. to sail on a tack with all sails filled.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a ramp or ramps:

verb (used without object)

1. (of animals) to stand or move with the forelegs or arms raised, as in animosity or excitement.
2. (of a lion or other large quadruped represented on a coat of arms) to rise or stand on the hind legs.
3. to rear as if to spring.
4. to leap or dash with fury (often followed by about).
5. to act violently; rage; storm:

Origin of RAMP

1350-1400; (v.) Middle English rampen Old French ramper to creep, crawl, climb; (noun) French rampe, derivative of ramper

Examples for RAMP

Jimbo and I headed towards the ramp when the crew chief grabbed us.

In two minutes, it would be time for him to walk up the ramp into the G-boat.

When he saw the ramp running from the ship to the ground, he was dismayed.

Jimbo and I walked up its ramp and into the hull, which looked like the gutted inside of a school bus.

“The Zone” is of course the ramp where Jews arriving by train are selected for slavery or gas.

Jaffe calls the approach “an off ramp before jail, a fence at the edge of the cliff rather than an ambulance at the bottom.”

Pieter Heemskerk stood by the ramp to the stubby G-boat and checked his watch.

Led by the color guard, and several chaplains, the detail shuffle-stepped toward the plane and up the ramp.

He shot him and ran up the ramp as the officer's body rolled down it.

The station was completely empty as Ravdin walked down the ramp to the shuttles.