ram

(Anglais)

Noun

1. A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
2. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
3. (historical) A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
4. (historical) A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
5. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
6. An act of ramming.
7. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
2. (transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
3. (transitive) To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
4. (also, figuratively, transitive) To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.
5. (transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
6. (slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.

Adj

Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹæm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ram

Hérité de ancien anglais: ramm

Appartenant à saterlandais: Rom

Appartenant à néerlandais: ram

Appartenant à allemand: Ramm

Appartenant à danois: ram

Appartenant à suédois: ram

Appartenant à féroïen: ramur

Appartenant à islandais: rammur

Hérité de moyen anglais: rammen

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: rammen

Appartenant à écossais: ram

Appartenant à moyen anglais: rammish

In summary

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).

Concepts

bélier

🐏

mouton

🐑

heurter

bouc

éperonner

cogner

enfoncer

éperon

corne

demoiselle

emboutir

entrer

force

fourrer

imposer

remplir

rendre

sonnette

🔔

damer

👸

pilon

pilonner

RAM

aller

éperon de glace

battre

bouquin

🧓

chariot

chevreuil

conduire

confiture

contraindre

Synonymes

sheep

🐑

male sheep

pound

💷

tup

thrust

cram

tamp

he-goat

butt

stuff

force

jam

hit

drive

run into

bump

poke

rammer

knock

plunger

🪠

batter

ram down

strike

shove

ramming

press

battering ram

jab

gore

push

collide

chock up

spur

shoot

shoulder

squeeze

bunt

ewe

beat

buffet

stick

bang

prod

piledriver

lamb

🐑

piston

jampack

plunge

propel

horn