Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inclined surface or roadway connecting different levels.
- noun A mobile staircase by which passengers board and leave an aircraft.
- noun A concave bend of a handrail where a sharp change in level or direction occurs, as at a stair landing.
- intransitive verb To rush around or act in a threatening or violent manner.
- intransitive verb To assume a threatening stance, as in rearing up on hindlegs.
- intransitive verb Heraldry To stand in the rampant position.
- noun A plant (Allium tricoccum) of the eastern United States having small bulbs and young leaves that are edible and have a pungent onionlike flavor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ramping; leaping; furiously swift or rushing.
- To rise by climbing or shooting up, as a plant; run or grow up rapidly; spring up in growth.
- To rise for a leap or in leaping, as a wild beast; rear or spring up; prepare for or make a spring; jump violently. See
rampant . - To move with violent leaps or starts; jump or dash about; hence, to act passionately or violently; rage; storm; behave with insolence.
- To spring about or along gaily; frolic; gambol; flirt; romp. See
romp . - To hustle; rob with violence.
- To bend upward, as a piece of iron, to adapt it to the woodwork of a gate or the like.
- noun An inclined traveling platform or carrier for transferring freight from a boat to a dock or warehouse.
- In architecture, to ascend or descend from one level to another: said of a wall.
- To be greedy, and noisy; to rampage.
- Mil., to make ramps on, as a bank or wall; furnish with ramps.
- noun A leap; a spring; a bound.
- noun A rising passage or road; specifically (military), a gradual slope or ascent from the interior level of a fortification to the general level behind the parapet.
- noun In masonry and carpentry, a concave bend or slope in the cap or upper member of any piece of ascending or descending workmanship, as in the coping of a wall; the concave sweep that connects the higher and lower parts of a railing at a half- or quarter-pace.
- noun In architecture, etc., any slope or inclined plane, particularly an inclined plane affording communication between a higher and a lower level.
- noun A coarse, frolicsome woman; a jade; a romp.
- noun The garden rampion, or its root.
- noun A highwayman; a robber.
- noun In the game of pin-pool, a stroke by which all the pins but the center one are knocked down. A player making a ramp at any stage of the game wins the pool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
- intransitive verb To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
- intransitive verb To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
- noun A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
- noun Prov. Eng. A highwayman; a robber.
- noun obsolete A romping woman; a prostitute.
- noun Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
- noun A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
- noun (Fort.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
inclined surface thatconnects twolevels ; anincline . - noun aviation A
mobile staircase that is attached to thedoors of anairliner at anairport . - noun skating A
construction used to do skatingtricks , usually in the form of part of apipe . - verb To behave
violently ; torage . - verb To stand in a
rampant position. - verb intransitive To
change value, often at a steady rate - noun An
American plant ,Allium tricoccum, related to theonion ; a wildleek . - noun Appalachia A promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb creep up -- used especially of plants
- noun an inclined surface connecting two levels
- verb stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- verb furnish with a ramp
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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At the end of the ramp is a security booth and a guard who turns away motorists not employed by or officially visiting the NSA.
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It was what we called our ramp program where we always looked after every disaster, every incident at remedial actions and what we could do to improve things.
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Put one on the off-ramp from the highway near your home, if you can.
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The old ramp is closed, and drivers are using a temporary ramp.
D.C. area's road projects from bird's-eye view Robert Thomson 2010
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Am I the only one who's embarrassed to admit that I don't trust that every guy with a card board sign at the freeway off ramp is really a veteran?
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I just hope the exit ramp is closer than far-far away.
Back to School: Excitement and simply terrified | Northern Belle 2010
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The too-short ramp from the southbound 14th Street bridge to the northbound parkway also is being rebuilt.
D.C. area's road projects from bird's-eye view Robert Thomson 2010
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The old ramp is closed, and drivers are using a temporary ramp.
D.C. area's road projects from bird's-eye view Robert Thomson 2010
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Changes include dropping a direct ramp from the Arboretum to eastbound 520 and the section across Portage Bay, from the Montlake Interchange to I-5, would be narrower and a have a slower, 45-mph speed limit.
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The too-short ramp from the southbound 14th Street bridge to the northbound parkway also is being rebuilt.
D.C. area's road projects from bird's-eye view Robert Thomson 2010
bilby commented on the word ramp
I suppose WordNet 1 is getting at the verb from which rampage is derived but I've never heard it.
September 13, 2008
jodi commented on the word ramp
"There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly well aware that publicity—advertising—is the dirtiest ramp that capitalism has yet produced." - - George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018
tbtabby commented on the word ramp
Music with no lyrics that a DJ can talk over, either to introduce a song or advertise something.
March 5, 2018