Cram

Definition: Cram

Cram

Verb

1. Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked".

2. Put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase".

3. Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey".

4. Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam".

5. Prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam.

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Date "cram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Cram

Assemblage

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Closure

(hinder); bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.

Compulsion

Force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Gluttony

Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home.

Learning

Acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote.

Burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram.

Teaching

Verb: teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten; (inform).

Crosswords: Cram

Can she cram complex issues into a nutshell, or what? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

How much caramel can a canny cannibal cram into a camel, if a canny cannibal can cram caramel into a camel? (references; author: unknown)

Cram (2003)

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Books

• A+ Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 220-221, Exam Cram 220-222) (reference)

• I-Net+ Exam Cram (Exam: 1KO-001) (reference)

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web Component Developer Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 310-080) (reference)

• MCSA Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 70-218) (reference)

• MCSD Architectures Exam Cram (Exam: 70-100) (reference)

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Ralph Adams Cram, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I would like to cram their philosophy back into their throats.

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Expressions using "cram": cram full ♦ cram in ♦ cram into ♦ cram oneself into smth. ♦ cram up ♦ cram with ♦ do not cram your writing so much! ♦ Packaged CRAM Executive. Additional references.

Beginning with "cram": cram-full.

Albanian

rras (Bury, clap, clench, crib, fling, huddle, jam, pop, ram, stuff, tamp, thrust, vice), njohuri të mësuara me ngut, njeri që mëson me ngut, ngjeshje (compression, conciseness, congestion, density, jam, jaw, jostle, squash, squeeze), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), mësoj me ngut, dyndje (congestion, flux, indraft, indraught, inrush, invasion, irruption, onrush, press, squash), dëndem (pop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملأ (crowd, fill, fill in, fill out, stack, stuff, wind), ‏حشا (beef up, cake, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), ‏حشر (crush, poke, push, ram, squash, stick, thrust), ‏حشد غفير (army), ‏إكتظ (congest, overcrowd), ‏إتخم (cloy, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, stuff, surfeit), ‏أكل بنهم (slop, stuff, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏روى الأكاذيب, ‏درس متعجلا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

угоявам (fat, fatten, feed up), тълпа (cloud, concourse, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), тъпча в главата, тъпча (glut, jam, ply, ram, shovel, squeeze, stodge, stuff, tread), кълва (dab, mug, nibble, pick), натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), зубрене (grind, swot), лъжа (bung, cracker, deception, falsehood, have on, inveracity, leasing, lie, lurk, play possum with, pose, tell a lie, tell lies, two time, untruth), блъсканица (crowd, melee, press, squash, throng). (various references)

Chinese 

死記 (rote learning), 填滿 , 填入 (Crammed, Cramming). (various references)

Czech

cpát si, napìchovat (cram in, jam, stuff), namaèkat, nacpat (crowd, jam, pack, stuff), biflovat se, šprtat (mug up, swot). (various references)

Danish

forbindelse til tilfældig tilgangslager (connection random access memory), direkte tilgangslager (connection random access memory). (various references)

Dutch

CRAM (connection random access memory), connection random access memory (connection random access memory). (various references)

Farsi 

پرکردن (Brim, Frank, Full, Glut, Heap, Load, Stow, Stud, Stuff, Suffuse, Thwack), چپاندن (Jam, Squeeze, Stuff, Thrust), خودرابرای امتحان اماده کردن , باشتاب یادگرفتن . (various references)

Finnish

satunnaismuisti (connection random access memory). (various references)

French

remplir, rassemblement (crew), raconter des mensonges, fourrer, faire manger beaucoup, engraisser, bourrer, bonder, bachoter, bûcher (crib), apprendre d'une manière vite. (various references)

German

mästen (fatten, feed up, plump up). (various references)

Greek 

στοιβάζω (crowd, pile), μνήμη άμεσης πρόσβασης σύνδεσης (connection random access memory), παραγεμίζω (chock, clog, engorge, fill to bursting, glut, overstuff, pad, stuff), χώνω (Bury, clap, dig into, drive in, drive into, jab into, stick, tuck). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא ב-, לפטם (fatten, plump, stuff, surfeit), ל�"לעיט (fatten, force feed, gorge, overfeed, stuff, surfeit), ל�"תפטם (cloy, gorge), ל�"חוס (compress, condense, crowd, jam, stuff, supercharge, tamp, wedge). (various references)

Hungarian

zsúfol (impact, to compress, to cram, to huddle together, to pack, to stuff), teletöm (to crowd, to pack, to sate, to satiate, to stuff), tömés (cementation, filling, pad, padding, stuffing), bemagolás, bemagol (to cram, to learn by rote, to memorise). (various references)

Indonesian

menjejalkan, enjal (stuff), endal (elastic, resilient, springy, stuff), berasak-asak (jam), asak (budge, jam). (various references)

Italian

stipare, sgobbare (dig, drudge, grind, grind away, oxes, plug away, slave, slog, sweat, swot, work hard), rimpinzarsi (gorge, gormandize, overeat, stuff), rimpinzare (fill, gorge, stuff), riempire (be filled, fill, fill in, Grout, replenish, stuff, top up), ingozzarsi, infarcire (pepper, stuff), ammassarsi (bank, crowd, flock, gather, mass, troop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰め込む (to cram, to crowd, to jam, to pack, to squeeze, to stuff). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つめ�"む (to cram, to crowd, to jam, to pack, to squeeze, to stuff). (various references)

Manx

pulgey, pronney (eating greedily, fill, filling, press; overcrowding, ram home, stuff, stuffing, taxidermy), jingey (crowd, crowd up, crowding, crush, embed, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging), broojey (bruise, compound, compress, crunch, crush, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, squelch, stamping), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, crunch, crush, grind, pounding, press, pressure, push, ring, squash). (various references)

Norwegian

stappe, pugge. (various references)

Pig Latin

amcray

Portuguese

congestionamento (jam, traffic jam), pancada (bang, bash, bat, biff, blow, bob, bop, clout, crack, dint, drub, flaw, flick, knock, lick, milling, pelt, plunk, shock, smacker, stinger, strike, stroke, swat, tit), mentira (bung, canard, caulker, corker, crack, cracker, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsehood, have-on, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, phoney, phony, tall tale, taradiddle, untruth), empinar (tilt), atulhar (stuff), amontoar (accumulate, amass, bank, clamp, clump, conglomerate, crowd, heap, hill, lump, mound, pack, pile, pile up, stack), abarrotamento (glut). (various references)

Romanian

da cu forţã, îmbulzealã (crush, hustle, rush, scrimmage, throng), îndesa (clap, cluster, flock, jam, ram, stamp, stuff), îndopa (fatten, gorge, guzzle, overfeed, pamper, stuff, surfeit), înghesui (accumulate, amass, bay, beat a path, corner, crib, crowd, heap, jam, jostle, nip, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack, stuff), îngrãşa (batten, fatten, fertilize, manure, plump), îngrãmãdi (accumulate, acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, crowd, drift, garner, gather, heap, huddle, jam, lumber, lump, pack, pile, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze, throng), îngrãmãdire (block, congeries, congestion, hoard, squash), învãţa mecanic, învãţa pe dinafarã (learn by heart, learn by rote), aglomeraţie (agglomeration, concourse, crowd, crush, throng), îmbuiba (cloy, gorge, stuff, surfeit, swill), bucheri, umple cu vârf, ghiftui (glut, gorge, gormandize, pamper, swill), medita pentru examen, pregãtire pentru examene, sãtura (cloy, fill, gorge, sate, satiate, soak, suffice), se ghiftui (gorge), ticsi (choke, crowd, jam, stuff, swarm), tocealã (grind), toci (benumb, blunt, con, cram up, dull, fret, grind, hack, mug, plug, rebate, take the edge off, wear), umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), umple capul, bãga în cap. (various references)

Russian 

вбивать в голову, впихивать (jam), обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile), нахватанные знания, наедаться, набивать (tamp, wad), зубрежка (grind, sap, swot), лгать (lie, tell lies), пичкать, давка (crowding, crush, jam, press, squeeze). (various references)

Scottish

calc (caulk; cram, drive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utrpati, strpati (cram into, put away), natrpati (bulk, cram in, heap up, jam, lumber, squeeze, stuff), nakljukati (fatten, pamper, stuff), nagurati (jam, push), nagruvati (grind, squeeze, stuff), nabubati, nabiti (huddle, jam, ram). (various references)

Spanish

cebar (bait, feed, prime, Stoke), rellenar con (pad, pad out, ram), memoria de acceso aleatorio de conexiones (connection random access memory), empollar (bone up, brood, hatch, incubate, learn up, set, sit, swot), emborrar (staff), atiborrar (gorge), atestar (attest, clutter, overcrowd, pack, testify, throng). (various references)

Swedish

CRAM (connection random access memory), stoppa full, sprängläsa, proppa full (crowd, line), plugga (grind, grind (a hard reading), plug, swot), packa full, gnugga (rub), drilla (Carol, drill, exercise, tootle, trill, warble, whistle). (various references)

Turkish

tıkmak (coop, put, shove, stuff, tuck, tuck in, wedge), tıkınmak (batten, bolt, engorge, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself, tuck in), tıkıştırmak (huddle, huddle together, shove, squeeze, stuff, tuck), tıka basa yedirmek (surfeit), tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, encumber, glut, gorge, pack, Stoke, tuck away), semirtmek (fat, fat up, fatten, feed up, make fat, plump, plump out, tallow), sınava hazırlamak, sınav öncesi yoğun çalışma, kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, press, squeeze, stampede, throng), inekletmek, ineklemek (bone up on, dig, grind, mug, mug up, swot), inekleme ile öğrenilen şeyler. (various references)

Turkmen 

яuwaюamak (cram in, stuff). (various references)

Ukrainian

репетитор (coach, crammer, tutor), тиснява (crowding, jam), штовханина (commotion, crush, hustle, jostle, jumble, squash, throng), відгодовувати (condition, fatten, feed up, plump, tallow), впихати, наповнювати (charge, fill, fill in, fill up, resound, sprinkle, suffuse), зубріння (grind, priming, rote, swot), переповнювати (burst, congest, gorge, overbrim, overfill, overflow). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nh�"i sọ, lời nói láo (crammer), lời nói dóc (buncombe, bunkum, crammer). (various references)

confertis, farciretur, refercio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cram": crambe, crambes, crambo, cramboes, crambos, crammed, crammer, crammers, cramming, cramoisie, cramoisies, cramoisy, cramp, cramped, cramping, crampit, crampits, crampon, crampons, crampoon, crampoons, cramps, crams. (additional references)

Words ending with "cram": overcram, scram. (additional references)

Words containing "cram": descramble, descrambled, descrambler, descramblers, descrambles, descrambling, macrame, macrames, overcrammed, overcramming, overcrams, sacrament, sacramental, sacramentalism, sacramentalisms, sacramentalist, sacramentalists, sacramentally, sacramentals, sacraments, scramble, scrambled, scrambler, scramblers, scrambles, scrambling, scramjet, scramjets, scrammed, scramming, scrams, unscramble, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscramblers, unscrambles, unscrambling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cram" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caam, Cacm, camg, Camr, Caram, carm, carma, carn, caum, cdram, ceam, Ceram, ceran, cgrm, Chaam, chrem, Ciam, ciran, coam, coran, cra, crad, craf, crah, Crai, craj, Crak, cral, Crame, Cramm, crano, crau, Crda, creh, crem, criam, crim, crimy, Crin, crism, criv, Crna, croam, croan, crom, cromo, crta, curam, Cyran, icraf, iram, Kram, krame, Kramm, Krim, lram, rca, rcam, rcvma, rram. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: marc.

-1 letter: arc, arm, cam, car, mac, mar, ram.

-2 letters: am, ar, ma.

+1 letter: carom, charm, cramp, crams, cream, cymar, macer, macro, march, marcs, micra, scram.

+2 letters: amerce, amtrac, calmer, camber, camera, camper, carman, carmen, caroms, carrom, charms, chimar, chroma, clamor, crambe, crambo, cramps, creams, creamy, cymars, drachm, karmic, macers, macron, macros, maraca, marcel, myrica, raceme, racism, sacrum, scrams, scream, tarmac.

+3 letters: aciform, acromia, acronym, amerced, amercer, amerces, amtrack, amtracs, arcanum, armlock, becharm, brecham, buckram, calamar, cambers, cambric, camerae, cameral, cameras, camorra, campers, camphor, campier, caramba, caramel, carmine, caromed, carroms, ceramal, ceramic, chamber, chamfer, champer, charism, charmed, charmer, chimars, chimera, chrisma, chromas, claimer, clamber, clammer, clamors, clamour, clamper, comaker, compare, compart, comrade, coremia, crambes, crambos, crammed, crammer, cramped, crampit, crampon, cranium, creamed, creamer, cremate, crewman, cumarin, curcuma, czardom, czarism, dharmic, drachma, drachms, embrace, fumaric, grimace, jacamar, keramic, lockram, macaber, macabre, machree, machzor, macrame, macrons, macular, mantric, maracas, marasca, marcato, marcels, marched, marchen, marcher, marches, mascara, matcher, menacer, mesarch, minicar, minorca, miracle, monarch, morceau, myricas, narcism, nomarch, primacy, racemed, racemes, racemic, racisms, reclaim, reclame, rematch, romance, sacrums, sarcasm, sarcoma, scamper, schmear, screams, smacker, tarmacs, tramcar, uraemic.