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CRAM
cram
(verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam; “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
(verb) crowd or pack to capacity; “the theater was jampacked”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
cram (third-person singular simple present crams, present participle cramming, simple past and past participle crammed)
(transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
(transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
(transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
(intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
(intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
(intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
(transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
Noun
cram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)
The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
Information hastily memorized.
(weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
(dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
(uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
Synonyms
• (lie): see lie
Anagrams
• MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
Proper noun
Cram (plural Crams)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cram is the 8939th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3662 individuals. Cram is most common among White (93.58%) individuals.
Anagrams
• MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
Source: Wiktionary
Cram (krm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] Etym: [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremia to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Cram, v. i.
1. To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
Cram, n.
1. The act of cramming.
2. Innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving)
Definition: A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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