Picture a male sheep lowering its head and charging: all the weight of the animal behind one hard, straight hit. Everything this word does keeps that picture — the animal, the heavy pole soldiers swung at castle gates, the machine part that pounds, and the verb for driving one thing hard into another.
From the word’s history
Old English ramm 'male sheep' was also used for the battering ram, an impact tool, apparently from the animal's habit of butting with force; the verb (c.1300, 'beat with a heavy implement'; by 1864 'dash violently against') comes from that noun. So the animal, the tool and the action are all one word historically.
古英語 ramm 本來指「公羊」,同一個字也被拿來指撞城門的攻城槌,看來是取自公羊用頭猛頂的習性;動詞(約 1300 年「用重物反覆敲打」,到 1864 年變成「猛力撞上」)就是從這個名詞來的。所以公羊、那根撞槌、和「猛撞」這個動作,在歷史上是同一個字。
Etymonline, entry for ram (etymonline.com/word/ram)
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原始詞典資料31 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Ramname詞源 1
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astrologyastronomyhuman-sciencesThe 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.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Ramname詞源 2
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biblicallifestylereligionThe father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron.
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A male given name.
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A surname
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One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.
Ramnoun詞源 3
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A US Korean War anti-tank weapon.
ramnoun詞源 1/ɹæm/
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agriculturebiologybusinessA male sheep, typically uncastrated.
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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.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarynauticalA 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.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarynauticalA reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
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A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
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An act of ramming.
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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."
ramverb詞源 2/ɹæm/
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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.
- A large stone rammed her head
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To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
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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.
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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.
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To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
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slangTo 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
ramadj詞源 3/ɹæm/
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Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- random-access memory
- random-access machine
- relative atomic mass
- responsibility assignment matrix
- reliability availability maintainability
- radar-absorbent material
- Royal Academy of Music
- Rise Above Movement
- Rāma
- rambo
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