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Ramp

//ɹæmp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
  2. 2
    Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.

    "A ramp is a potently flavored wild scallion, a vegetable with staying power."

  3. 3
    an inclined surface connecting two levels wordnet
  4. 4
    An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
  5. 5
    A promiscuous man or woman. Appalachia, obsolete

    "And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]"

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  1. 6
    a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft wordnet
  2. 7
    A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
  3. 8
    A worthless person. Appalachia, derogatory
  4. 9
    North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers wordnet
  5. 10
    A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
  6. 11
    A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.

    "He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total."

  7. 12
    A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
  8. 13
    A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
  9. 14
    A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
  10. 15
    A scale of values.

    "The RGB model uses the color component of light sources in order to produce more realistic and pleasant results. Internal color representations are always based on a palette-based color ramp."

  11. 16
    A speed bump.
  12. 17
    An act of violent robbery. slang
  13. 18
    A deliberate swindle or fraud. slang

    "We are surely not meant to think of the sense of “ramp” (from 1819) that means a deliberate swindle or fraud, such as announcing that you have done more tests than you actually have because a third were just posted out."

  14. 19
    A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell. Australia, slang
  15. 20
    A leap or bound. obsolete
  16. 21
    A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
Verb
  1. 1
    To behave violently; to rage.

    "Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,"

  2. 2
    stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing wordnet
  3. 3
    To swindle or rob violently. slang, transitive

    "In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob."

  4. 4
    creep up — used especially of plants wordnet
  5. 5
    To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell. Australia, slang, transitive
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  1. 6
    be rampant wordnet
  2. 7
    To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently. intransitive, obsolete

    "Their bridles they would champe, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely rampe."

  3. 8
    furnish with a ramp wordnet
  4. 9
    To climb, like a plant; to creep up. intransitive, obsolete

    "Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]"

  5. 10
    behave violently, as if in state of a great anger wordnet
  6. 11
    To stand in a rampant position. intransitive, obsolete

    "And that lyon gaped wyde and came vpon hym raumppynge to haue slayne hym."

  7. 12
    To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate. ambitransitive

    "If Q(t)lt;qᵖ then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold."

  8. 13
    To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

Etymology 2

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

Etymology 3

]See ramson.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from German Ramp.

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