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RAMMED

Definition: RAMMED

RAMMED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Ram

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RAMMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

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Crosswords: RAMMED

English words defined with "RAMMED": driveFollow board, forcePiseRAM. (references)
Specialty definitions using "RAMMED": gate side packinduction furnace rammed liningjet corermechanical rammerpisé de terrerammed-earth construction, ramming and patching refractories, rubble concretescotch blockwood piling. (references)

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Modern Usage: RAMMED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Some of them come home with seven, eight bullets rammed up in the barrel, never fired a shot. (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: RAMMED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and Construction (reference)

  • Adobe Pressed Earth and Rammed Earth Industries in New Mexico (reference)

  • Earthbuilders Encyclopedia: The Master Alphabetical Reference for Adobe and Rammed Earth (reference)

  • Hoods on the Hill: How Mulroney and His Mob Rammed the Gst Past Parliament and Down Our Throats (reference)

  • Rammed Earth Structures: A Code of Practice (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: RAMMED

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

For example, on February 14, a Palestinian driving a bus purposefully rammed into a bus stop south of Tel Aviv, killing eight persons. (references)

Nicaragua

When the bus arrived at the blockade, the assailants in the bus began shooting at the police and rammed the bus through the police blockade. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: RAMMED

"RAMMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 65.92% of the time. "RAMMED" is used about 179 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)65.92%11829,674
Lexical Verb (past participle)31.28%5645,296
Adjective (general or positive)2.79%5157,705
                    Total100.00%179N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: RAMMED

Expression using "RAMMED": induction furnace rammed lining. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "RAMMED": rammed-earth.

Ending with "RAMMED": jump-rammed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RAMMED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rammed earth how to

42

rammed

41

rammed earth home

18

rammed earth construction

14

rammed earth house

11

blonde rammed

9

ass rammed

9

anal ass brunette mature rammed

7

rammed earth building

6

rammed teen

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RAMMED

Language Translations for "RAMMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

猛' (Ramming). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stampet ildfast materiale (rammed refractory), stampebeton (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), Skaervebeton i gitterforskalling (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing), induktionsovnspresbeklædning (induction furnace rammed lining), hulsten (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zittingsteen (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well), stampbeton (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), korrelbeton, gestort in roosterbekisting (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing), gestampte vuurvaste massa (rammed refractory), gestampte pot (rammed pot), gestampte bodem (rammed bottom), gestampte bekleding (induction furnace rammed lining). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tampattu upokas (rammed pot), tampattu pohja (rammed bottom). (various references)

   

French

  

revêtement damé d'un four induction (induction furnace rammed lining), sole damée (rammed bottom), siège porte-busette (rammed well), pot damé (rammed pot), porte busette (rammed well), pisé réfractaire damé (rammed refractory), pisé (rammed-earth construction), fond damé (rammed bottom), brique de siège (rammed well), béton de terre (rammed earth), béton d'argile (rammed earth), béton damé (rammed concrete), béton caverneux banché en coffrage grilles (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing). (various references)

   

German

  

rammte, gerammt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κούφιο σκυρόδεμα πιεστό,επενδυμένο με δικτυωτό πλέγμα (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing), κοπανισμένη πυρίμαχη μάζα (rammed refractory), συμπιεσμένη επένδυση επαγωγικής κάμινου (induction furnace rammed lining), μπετόν κοπανισμένο (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), πλίνθος με οπές (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well), ατικωμένος πυθμένας (rammed bottom), ατικωμένο δοχείο ψύξεως (rammed pot). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

döngölt (beaten). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

teseruduk (rammed into), keseruduk (rammed into). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rivestimento per pigiata di un forno ad induzione (induction furnace rammed lining), suola ottenuta per pigiatura (rammed bottom), portascaricatore (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well), pigiata refrattaria (rammed refractory), crogiuolo ottenuto per pigiatura (rammed pot), calcestruzzo pilonato (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), calcestruzzo battuto (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), calcestruzzo alveolato gettato in casseforme a rete (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

부"치게 하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ammedray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

refractário prensado (rammed refractory), soleira compactada com maço de calceteiro (rammed bottom), soleira calcada com maço (rammed bottom), soleira batida com maço (rammed bottom), pote compactado a maço (rammed pot), pote batido com maço (rammed pot), porta bocal (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well), betão cavernoso batido em cofragens de grade (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

revestimiento apisonado de un horno de inducción (induction furnace rammed lining), refractario moldeado con pison (rammed refractory), solera en damero (rammed bottom), portabuzas (nozzle seating block, pocket block, rammed well), hormigón sin finos amasado en encofrados enrejados (hollow concrete rammed in trellis casing), hormigón apisonado (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete), crisol en damero (rammed pot), concreto compacto (compacted concrete, rammed concrete, tamped concrete). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stampad infodring (induction furnace rammed lining), stampad degel (rammed pot), stampad botten (rammed bottom). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แน่นเอีย". (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

утрамбований (puddled). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: RAMMED

Derivations

Words ending with "RAMMED": anagrammed, crammed, deprogrammed, diagrammed, drammed, misprogrammed, monogrammed, overcrammed, overprogrammed, preprogrammed, programmed, reprogrammed, scrammed, telegrammed, trammed, unprogrammed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"RAMMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ammed, prammed, Ramd, rame, ramedy, Rameez, ramet, ramleh, Rummel, trammed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RAMMED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "RAMMED" (pronounced ra"md)
4r a" m dcrammed.
3-a" m ddammed, damned, jammed, scammed, slammed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: RAMMED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dammer.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-m-r"

-1 letter: armed, derma, dream, madre.

-2 letters: dame, dare, dear, derm, dram, made, mare, mead, read, ream.

-3 letters: are, arm, dam, ear, era, mad, mae, mar, med, mem, rad, ram, red, rem.

-4 letters: ad, ae, am, ar, de, ed, em, er, ma, me, mm, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-m-r"
 

+1 letter: crammed, dammers, drammed, mermaid, trammed.

 

+2 letters: hammered, mammered, mermaids, rummaged, scrammed, yammered.

 

+3 letters: commander, dermatome, dreamtime, formamide, malformed, marmalade, melodrama, membraned, memoranda, midstream, misframed, mismarked, stammered, trammeled.

 

+4 letters: anagrammed, commandeer, commanders, commandery, dermatomal, dermatomes, diagrammed, dreamtimes, formamides, hammerhead, immigrated, immoderacy, immoderate, marmalades, mastermind, melodramas, memorandum, mesodermal, midstreams, monogramed, multiarmed, programmed, rehammered, scrimmaged, scrummaged, summarised, summarized, trammelled, windjammer.

 

+5 letters: bombardment, chambermaid, commandeers, disarmament, dynamometer, dynamometry, hammerheads, ideogrammic, masterminds, memorandums, misdemeanor, monogrammed, overcrammed, telegrammed, untrammeled, windjammers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RAMMED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 41 4D 4D 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#77 &#77 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 004D 004D 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523547473938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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