ram

noun

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of random-access memory.

   “Looking for the best RAM for your PC in 2023 has gotten a little bit more complicated than before. With the advent of DDR5, you can now choose between a newer standard, and an older one. DDR4 has a differently keyed connector, and you’re also going to have to check that the RAM is compatible with your CPU in the first place. So, what should you buy?”

2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of random-access machine.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, physical)Acronym of relative atomic mass; sometimes styled r.a.m..
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.
5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.
6. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.
7. A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
8. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

   “The solid oak door—he fingered it again—was as though made to resist a ram, the walls built to withstand a siege, and every stone and brick in wall, bench, or floor was as immovable as the face of a rock.”

9. (historical)A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

   “About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.”

10. (historical)A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
11. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
12. An act of ramming.
13. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

    “He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."”

14. A US Korean War anti-tank weapon.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Rise Above Movement.
3. The constellation and zodiac sign Aries.

   “Aries, or the Ram governeth the head.”

   “Those stars said to belong to the Ram might as well be supposed to belong to the Bull or the Lion.”

   “The diamond is said to typify innocence, and it is also associated with Virgo, the maid, in the Signs of the Zodiac, whilst the ruby is associated with the sign Aries, the ram.”

   “Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.”

   “‘’Tis the sign of the Ram,' he whispered with wonder. ‘The first sign of the Zodiac!’”

4. (UK)Someone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
5. The father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron.
6. A male given name.
7. A surname
8. One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.
9. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Rāma (“an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism”).

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

   “The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.”

   “Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.”

   “The other ships, either not caring or too badly-damaged to do anything about it, proceed on their mission, with König the last to fall silent, shot to pieces in a last attempt to ram the Bellerophon.”

   “The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.”

2. (transitive)To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

   “To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.”

3. (transitive)To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.

   “After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.”

4. (also, figuratively, transitive)To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.

   “I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.”

   “Again: great to take lessons in ethics from a guy currently trying to ram through a policy of freighting refugees off to cuddly Rwandan president Paul Kagame.”

5. (transitive)To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

   “They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact”

6. (slang)To thrust during sexual intercourse.

   “1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more”

adj

1. (Northern-England)Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.