ramp

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  1. noun An inclined surface or roadway connecting different levels.
  2. noun A mobile staircase by which passengers board and leave an aircraft.
  3. noun A concave bend of a handrail where a sharp change in level or direction occurs, as at a stair landing.
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  • Near by was a submarine, close to a ramp was a speedy amphibian, with a fast-racing plane now attached to its back. —  069 - The Green Death
  • On the three corners opposite the off-ramp, a 7-11, an AM/PM, and another 7-11, all abandoned, windows shattered, roofs askew and foundations cracked. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • It was another mile and a half until the next off-ramp, about ten minutes with only two lanes open. —  Challenging Destiny #18
  • The surface of the ramp was free of snow, but whoever it was slipped on stepping onto the ramp, and nearly fell. —  Analog March, 1971
  • At the LeJeune on-ramp, a huge dairy truck had roared onto the shoulder and hit a van full of kids from a Catholic school. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
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  1. French rampe, from ramper, to slope, rise up, from Old French; see ramp2.
  2. Middle English rampen, from Old French ramper, to rear, rise up, of Germanic origin.
  3. Variant of rams, from Middle English ramse, from Old English hramsa.

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  1. Also romp (now partly differenced in use: see romp); from Middle English rampen, from Old French ramper, raumper, creep, crawl, also climb, French ramper, creep, crawl, cringe (cf. rampe, a flight of stairs (later G. rampe), = Italian rampare, clutch (ram-pa, a claw, a grip, rampo, a grappling-iron), a nasalized form of rappare, in comp. ar-rappare, = Provencal Spanish Portuguese rapar, snatch up, carry off, seize upon; of Teutonic origin: Low German rappen, rapen, snatch up hastily; Bavar. dial. rampfen, German raffen, snatch, etc.: see rap, rape, raff.
  2. from Middle English rampe; from ramp, v. Cf. romp, n.
  3. from ramp, v.
 

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