ram : Idioms & Phrases

• noun 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
  Ram; Aries.
  

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• noun a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings
  

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Bat"ter*ing-ram` noun

Definitions

1. 1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. ✍ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. Grose.
2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

Webster 1913

• noun a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level
  hydraulic pump.
  

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• a machine for raising water by means of the energy of the moving water of which a portion is to be raised. When the rush of water through the main pipe d shuts the valve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weight allows another rush through the main pipe, and so on alternately.

Webster 1913

• noun (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors
  
  • access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off

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• verb strike or drive against with a heavy impact
  ram; pound.
  
  • ram the gate with a sledgehammer
  • pound on the door
• verb teach by drills and repetition
  hammer in; beat in; drill in.
  

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• verb make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  drive home; press home.
  
  • drive home a point or an argument
  • I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

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• noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
  common unicorn plant; Proboscidea louisianica; elephant-tusk; devil's claw; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
  

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• . (a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch . Written also ramshorn. Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

Webster 1913

• noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
  

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• noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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• noun king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
  Rameses the Great; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Rameses II.
  

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Wa"ter ram`

Definitions

1. An hydraulic ram.

Webster 1913