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Definition: RAMMING |
RAMMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Ram |
Date "RAMMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | Shaping with a rammer. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A layer of highly conductive ramming material between the shell of a blast furnace and the refractory lining in the bosh zone. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. See:stemming; tamping.b. See:scaling. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RAMMING |
| Specialty definitions using "RAMMING": backfill, backfill ramming, brasqued crucible ♦ compo ♦ floor molder, sweep method ♦ jolt moulding machine ♦ MOLDER, SWEEP, monolithic refractory, mouldable refractory ♦ plastic refractory, prospecting by borings or trial pits ♦ shockless jolt moulding machine ♦ test boring. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ramming speed (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ramming Speed (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Line engraving, published in the "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, pages 184-185, depicting CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack) ramming USS Cumberland, 8 March 1862. USS Congress and the bow of a Confederate gunboat are shown at right. Credit: NAVY. |  | 19th Century photograph of an artwork, depicting USS Sassacus ramming the Confederate ironclad, during Albemarle's engagement with Federal gunboats on Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864. Sassacus was hit in a boiler and disabled during this action. Albemarle was not significantly damaged by the ramming or by gunfire. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 4 June 1864, depicting USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, during the Confederate ironclad's engagement with U.S. Navy gunboats in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 58, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts USS Sassacus ramming the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "RAMMING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "RAMMING" is used about 47 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.87% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "RAMMING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ramming | Last name | 200 | 39,502 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "RAMMING": backfill ramming ♦ ramming depth of interlocking sheet piles. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "RAMMING": ramming-spike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ramming | 48 |
ass ramming | 42 |
anal ramming | 18 |
pussy ramming | 9 |
cock ramming | 5 |
gay ramming | 5 |
pipe ramming | 3 |
ramming throat | 3 |
butt ramming | 2 |
ass gay ramming | 2 |
anal ramming sick | 2 |
ramming speed | 2 |
ramming sex | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RAMMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 猛' (Rammed). (various references) | |
Danish | stampemasse (backfill, backfill ramming). (various references) | |
Dutch | stampmassa (backfill, backfill ramming). (various references) | |
French | damage. (various references) | |
German | Rammend. (various references) | |
Greek | μηχανισμός γόμωσης με πυρίμαχο υλικό (backfill, backfill ramming), μάζα σταθεροποίησης πυρίμαχου υλικού (backfill, backfill ramming), επιγόμωση (stemming, tamping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | toldat cölöpveréshez (punch for ramming in a pile). (various references) | |
Indonesian | serudukan. (various references) | |
Korean | 부"치게 함. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | massa de fixação do refractário (backfill, backfill ramming). (various references) | |
Spanish | masa apisonada de refractario de relleno E (backfill, backfill ramming). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RAMMING": anagramming, counterprogramming, cramming, deprogramming, diagramming, dramming, microprogramming, misprogramming, monogramming, multiprogramming, overcramming, overprogramming, preprogramming, programming, reprogramming, scramming, telegramming, tramming. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RAMMING": counterprogrammings, microprogrammings, multiprogrammings, programmings. (additional references) | |
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"RAMMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Marming, orgasming, pramming, Rahmin, ramin, ramins, Rammingen, rammingo, relming, reming, tramming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RAMMING" (pronounced ra"ming) |
| 5 | r a" m i ng | cramming. |
| 4 | -a" m i ng | damming, damning, jamming, lambing, slamming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arming, margin. | |
-2 letters: gamin, garni, grain, inarm. | |
-3 letters: agin, airn, amin, amir, gain, girn, gnar, gram, gran, grim, grin, imam, magi, maim, main, mair, mina, ragi, rain, rami, rang, rani, ring. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, air, ami, ani, arm, gam, gan, gar, gin, mag, man, mar, mig, mim, mir, nag, nam, nim, rag, ram, ran. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: cramming, dramming, tramming. | |
+2 letters: germanium, hammering, immigrant, mammering, mridangam, rummaging, scramming, yammering. | |
+3 letters: germaniums, grammarian, immigrants, misframing, mismarking, mridangams, stammering, trammeling. | |
+4 letters: anagramming, diagramming, gourmandism, grammarians, immigrating, immigration, merrymaking, micromanage, monograming, programming, rehammering, scrimmaging, scrummaging, summarising, summarizing, trammelling. | |
+5 letters: anagrammatic, gourmandisms, immigrations, merrymakings, micromanaged, micromanager, micromanages, monogramming, nonimmigrant, overcramming, phonogrammic, programmings, spermagonium, telegramming. | |
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