ram

noun (1)

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Definition of ram

(Entry 1 of 3)

1a : a male sheep

b capitalized : aries

2a : battering ram

b : a warship with a heavy beak at the prow for piercing an enemy ship

3 : any of various guided pieces for exerting pressure or for driving or forcing something by impact: such as

a : the plunger of a hydrostatic press or force pump

b : the weight that strikes the blow in a pile driver

ram

verb

rammed; ramming

Definition of ram (Entry 2 of 3)

intransitive verb

1 : to strike with violence : crash

2 : to move with extreme rapidity

transitive verb

1 : to force in by or as if by driving

2a : to make compact (as by pounding)

b : cram, crowd

3 : to force passage or acceptance of ram home an idea

4 : to strike against violently

RAM

noun (2)

\ ˈram

Definition of RAM (Entry 3 of 3)

: a computer memory on which data can be both read and written and on which the location of data does not affect the speed of its retrieval especially : RAM that acts as the main storage available to the user for programs and data

— called also random-access memory

— compare rom

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Examples of ram in a Sentence

Verb They deliberately rammed my car from behind. The car slid and rammed against the wall. He deliberately rammed his car into mine. She rammed her fist against the wall in anger. She rammed the cork into the barrel. He opened the chute and rammed the clothes down. Noun (2) My computer is slow because it needs more RAM. See More

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