ram : Idioms & Phrases


aries the ram

  • 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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battering ram

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

Bat"ter*ing-ram` noun
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  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

Hydraulic ram

  • 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

ram disk

  • 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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ram down

  • 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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ram home

  • 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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Ram's horn

  • 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.
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ram's-head

  • 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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ram's-head lady's slipper

  • 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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rameses ii

  • 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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rameses the great

  • 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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ramesses ii

  • 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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ramesses the great

  • 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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ramses ii

  • 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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ramses the great

  • 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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water ram

Wa"ter ram`
Definitions
  1. An hydraulic ram.
Webster 1913