Ramp

Definition: Ramp

Ramp

Noun

1. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.

2. North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers.

Verb

1. Behave violently, as if in a great rage.

2. Furnish with a ramp: "The ramped auditorium".

3. Be rampant, as of a beast in a heraldic depiction.

4. Creep up -- used esp. of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall".

5. As of a snake.

6. Stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ramp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Shipping

Transportation

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RAMP

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Synonyms: Ramp

Ascent

Climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Crosswords: Ramp

Dutch (catastrophe), Norwegian (hooligan), Swedish (floats, footlights, foot-lights, ramp).

She sleeps hanging from a ramp in the ceiling, wrapped in a cocoon of her own wings (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps. (references; author: unknown)

De Ramp van Contich (1908)

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References

• Ramp Networks, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Down Ramp (reference)

• Freeway Entrance Ramp Displays (reference)

• North Carolina Beaches: A Visit to National Seashores, State Parks, Ferries, Public Beaches, Wildlife Refuges, Historic Sites, Lighthouses, Boat ramp (reference)

• Ramp up Your Soccer Tactics with Disguise and Surprise (reference)

• The Late Ordovician and Silurian of the Eastern Great Basin, Part 6: The Upper Ordovician Carbonate Ramp (Contributions in Biology & Geology, No 69) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ramp Riding (reference)

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Music

• Ramp (reference)

• Straight From Tha Ramp (reference)

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High Tech

• Ramp Networks Upg Webramp 310E To 350E Add Easyview(Tm) Mdm Shrng Dsktop Fax (reference)

• Ramp Networks Webramp 310I Router with 2 Int 56K Modems and 4 Port 10BT Hub (reference)

• RCA RP3753 CD Clock Radio (Dual Alarm, Ramp Up) (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• HalfSTEP II Multi-Purpose Dog/Pet Safety Ramp (reference)

• Keeper 05674 Ramp Kit (reference)

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CDC dedication ceremony shown from ramp area. The ceremony marked the new location of the CDC on Clifton Road in Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: CDC.

X-1-2 on Ramp with Boeing B-29. Credit: NASA.

X-1E Loaded in B-29 Mothership on Ramp. Credit: NASA.

Removal of marsh grasses and SAV's next to this boat ramp have added to erosion problems in the area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A public boat ramp at Lewes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers reading the ramp thermometer in the winter night, -40 Fahr. (A flashlight photograph.) In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 221. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The boat ramp at Arecibo Outboard Club. Here fishermen launch their boats. Credit: Fisheries.

Public boat launching ramp. Credit: Fisheries.

Watering ramp installed on local farm pond to prevent cattle from disturbing riparian area. Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

District Conservationist Carman Westerfield inspects a watering ramp installed on local farm pond to prevent cattle from disturbing riparian area. Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

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It walked down the ramp and stood in front of Arthur

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Business

The TCO produced 190,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 1999 and currently produces 216,000 bpd. TCO plans to extract 10.4 million tons of oil this year, while next year the enterprise will ramp up production to about 12 million tons, which will mean a daily output of up to 260,000 barrels. (references)

Children

Korea

New public buildings are required to include facilities for persons with disabilities, such as ramp access to entrances, a wheelchair lift, and special parking spaces. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

The worsening plight of the aviation sector has prompted re-examination of the restriction of foreign ownership to 20%. With the recent proposed transfer of the airport management monopoly to civilian control and discussion of possible privatization of the country's airports, there is a possibility that airport management and ramp services will be opened to foreign ownership or management in the future. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ramp": analog ramp ♦ analogue ramp ♦ approach ramp ♦ hydraulic ramp ♦ launching ramp ♦ loading ramp ♦ moving ramp ♦ off ramp ♦ railway loading ramp ♦ ramp and rage ♦ ramp around ♦ ramp position ♦ stern ramp ♦ Taxi and Ramp Management and Control ♦ unloading ramp ♦ wheelchair ramp. Additional references.

Beginning with "ramp": ramp-up, ramp-ups.

Ending with "ramp": exit-ramp, landing-ramp, mini-ramp, on-ramp, parking-ramp, roll-ramp.

Albanian

rri me putëra të prapshme, turrem andej-këtej, tatëpjetë (bevel, decline, declivity, descent, dip, down, downhill, downward, downwards, incline, slant, slope), tërbohem (be enraged, bristle, grow rabid, rage, rampage), shkallë e lëvizshme (gangway), platformë hidraulike, pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, knee, pitch, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slant, slope, splay, talus, tilt, trim), luftoj (combat, contend, correct, debate, dispute, fight, militate, oppugn, stand up for, strive, struggle, thrash about, war, wrestle), kërcënohem, devijim (deflection, deviation, digression, dip, diversion, shunt), deviacion (deviation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخفف السرعة, ‏هاج (carry along, carry away, excite, fling about, flush, fluster, inflame, kindle, rave, seethe, thrill, toss, vex), ‏تشوش (addle, become confused, confusion, fog, fogginess, incoherence, mix up, morass, muddling, perplexity, perturbation, pother, promiscuity, ravel, tangle), ‏سلم الصعود للطائره, ‏إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fuss, great rage, in a state, rampage, sensation, stir, willies), ‏إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, downhill, falling, inclination, rake, scarp, slope, steep, tilt), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏ثور (beef, bovine, bull, ferment, fire, heat, ox, rampage, rebel, revolt, revolutionize, rise, set against, steer, storm, take the bit in one's hands), ‏رصيف منحدر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

наклонена плоскост (glide, incline, slide), изнудвам (gouge, hijack, racketeer, screw, shark), изнудване (blackmail, exaction, extortion, gouge, racket, shakedown), полегат път, правя рампа на, пълзя (crawl, gad, grovel, ramble, run), беснея (foam, rage, raise cain, rave, run amok, run amuck, storm), изправям се на задните си крака (prance), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), скат (devil fish, hang, pitch, shoulder, skat, skate, slope, thornback, whip ray), обирам (burgle, mop up, mulct, plunder, ransack, roll, skin, stick up, strip, strip bare), вилнея (ballyrag, rage, rampage, rave, run amok, run amuck, run wild, stalk), вия се (coil, creep, curl, entwine, run, serpentine, twist, weave, wheel, wind, wound, wreathe, writhe), кожодерство, рампа (upgrade), слагам рампа на, склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), бушувам (bellow, bluster, storm, surge, welter). (various references)

Chinese 

舷梯 (ramps). (various references)

Czech

rampa (platform), zvýšený úsek vozovky, svah (descent, dip, downgrade, downhill, fall, gradient, Hill, hillside, pitch, rise, side, slope, steep, upgrade, uphill), schùdky k letadlu, bìsnit (rage, seethe), šikmá plošina. (various references)

Danish

rampe (cord, drag line, heavy cord), variabel belastning (variable load), tilkørselsvej (slip road), tilkørselsrampe (slip road), skraarampe (steep), overgangsbro (loading ramp), loebebro (gangway, scaffold board, walkway), læssebro (loading ramp), læggeplads (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), krokodille (crocodile), kontaktskinnes opløbsstykke, kontaktskinnes afløbsstykke, hældning (dip, inclination, pitch, plunge, rake, slope, strike, tilt, tip inclination), gangbro (construction trestle, footbridge, foot-bridge, gangway, gantry, overhead crossing, passage, passage way, pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, scaffold board, staging), ekspeditionsplatform (apron). (various references)

Dutch

wisselende belasting (variable load, varying load), verstelbare laadbrug (loading ramp), verbindingsweg (slip road), steigerplank (scaffold board), platform (platform), parkeerplatform (apron, paved apron, tarmac), oprit (access, approach, drive, sweep), krokodil (crocodile), houtstapelplaats (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), hellingbaan, helling (acclivity, hillside, slope). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Meander, Rick, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), پله ء سراشیب , پلکان (Pitch, Stairway, Step), سکوب سراشیب , سطح شیب دار (Gradient), سرازیرشدن (Plummet, Slope, Top), سرازیر (Steep), صعودکردن (Ascend, Climb, Mount, Rise, Soar, Up), خزیدن (Crawl, Creep, Glide, Grovel, Slime, Slither, Worm), دست انداز (Puddle), بالابردن یاپاءین اوردن . (various references)

Finnish

ramppi (footlights, front of the stage), varastopaikka (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), varastoalue (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), puutavaravarasto (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), purkamisvarasto (bank ground, banking ground, brow, dump, landing, log dump, processing yard, rampsite, skids, yard), lankkutie (scaffold board), ajoluiska. (various references)

French

rampe (rail, railing), bretelle. (various references)

German

Rampe (apron, forestage, pad, platform). (various references)

Greek 

ράμπα (slade, slip, slipway, stern door, stern flap). (various references)

Hungarian

rámpa (relay platform), feljáró (approach, gangway). (various references)

Indonesian

jalan melandai. (various references)

Italian

rampa (flight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ランブル鞭毛虫症 (giardiasis, headlight, lamp, light, love, love hotel, rampway, rump steak, run length). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ランプ (headlight, lamp, light). (various references)

Korean 

경사로 (ramps). (various references)

Manx

ughtagh (ascent, bluffness, high-pitched, hill, hillside, rising ground, shelving), ro-ardjaghey, ardjaghey (change up, climb, increase, inflation, level up, lift, mount up, outbid, overbid, pitch, prefer, preferment, promote, promotion, put up, steepen, worsen, worsen as fever), ardane (avenue, emplacement, rise, scene, terrace, tribune). (various references)

Pig Latin

ampray.(various references)

Portuguese

rampa (acclivity, agger, ascent, bank, hillside, incline, rise, runway, slope, talus, uprise). (various references)

Romanian

rampã (acclivity, banister, banisters, barrier, float, footlights, grade, handrail, limelight, platform, slope, stage-lights), tuna şi fulgera (fret and fume, rage and fume), se ridica pe labele dinapoi, povârniş (descent, dip, fall, glacis, inclination, scarp, slant, slope, steep), pantã (acclivity, chute, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, glacis, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, slant, slope, splay, tilt, up), da o anumitã înclinare, creştere vertiginoasã a preţurilor, construi în pantã, şantaja (blackmail), înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, take in), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian 

сходня (gangplank, gang-plank), уклон (bias, deviation, dip, downgrade, draft, draught, fall, grade, gradient, incline, plane, ply, slant, slope, taper), скат (chute, gradient, incline, skat, slope, staple), сооружать рампу, трап (gang-plank, ladder, trap), грабить (depredate, despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, prey upon, ransack, ravish, reave, reive, robbing, sack), виться (buzz about, climb, curl, frizz up, twine, wave), остряк (punster, witling), наклонная плоскость (inclined plane), бушевать (bluster, rage, rave, stormed, tempest), борт (bead, cushion, flange, gunnel, gunwale, shipboard), пилообразный сигнал, идти под уклон. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rampa (pad, tollgate), ulaz ili izlaz sa autoputa, strma ravan, propeti se (curvet, raise oneself), platforma (pad, pallet, platform), namestiti pristup. (various references)

Spanish

rampa (adit, apron, chute, cut, drift, incline layout, level, pass, plane, scaffold board, seed port, upgrade, upwards grade, variable load). (various references)

Swedish

ramp (floats, footlights, foot-lights). (various references)

Thai

บันไดขึ้นลงเครื่องบิน, ทำให้เป็นทางลาด, ทางลาด, ขู่เข็ญ. (various references)

Turkish

rampa (ascent, boarding, gantry, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, pad, platform, raise), yokuş (acclivity, ascent, bank, declination, descent, dip, downgrade, glacis, Hill, incline, pitch, raise, slope, upgrade), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), kudurmak (be attacked by rabies, fume, going mad, lash oneself into a fury, rage, rampage, rave, seethe), kazık (deceit, pale, peg, picket, pile, post, stake), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, foam, froth, lather, rage, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), dolandırıcılık (charlatanry, cheat, confidence game, confidence trick, deceit, deceitfulness, do, double dealing, frame up, fraud, grift, jugglery, knavery, plant, racket, roguery, skin game, swindle, take in), şahlanmak (rear, rear up), şaha kalkmak (curvet, rear up). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти під ухил, споруджувати рампу, спад (chute, decline, degression, descent, fall, relaxing, sag, wane), рампа (footlights, light), повзти (creep, snake, warp, worm), пандус. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dốc (bias, declivity, gradient, slope, slopewise, sloping, steep, uphill, versant), bờ dốc. (various references)

a�kud. (various references)

ramper. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ramp": rampage, rampaged, rampageous, rampageously, rampageousness, rampageousnesses, rampager, rampagers, rampages, rampaging, rampancies, rampancy, rampant, rampantly, rampart, ramparted, ramparting, ramparts, ramped, rampike, rampikes, ramping, rampion, rampions, rampole, rampoles, ramps. (additional references)

Words ending with "ramp": cramp, gramp, offramp, tramp. (additional references)

Words containing "ramp": chloramphenicol, chloramphenicols, cramped, cramping, crampit, crampits, crampon, crampons, crampoon, crampoons, cramps, gramps, grampus, grampuses, offramps, overamplified, tramped, tramper, trampers, tramping, trampish, trample, trampled, trampler, tramplers, tramples, trampling, trampoline, trampoliner, trampoliners, trampolines, trampolining, trampolinings, trampolinist, trampolinists, tramps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ramp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arepp, Armpc, aromp, Arpm, Framp, gramp, kamp, kramp, Krampe, namp, nramp, pramp, radm, rahm, ralp, Ramapo, ramb, Ramby, Ramd, rami, ramm, ramo, ramop, Rampa, Rampe, Ramu, ramy, ranb, rapj, rapp, ratm, ratp, rawp, Raym, rcmp, Reml, remp, remu, rham, Rijp, rimb, riml, rma, rqm, Rumpf, Rumph. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pram.

-1 letter: amp, arm, map, mar, pam, par, ram, rap.

-2 letters: am, ar, ma, pa.

+1 letter: cramp, gramp, praam, prams, prima, ramps, remap, tramp.

+2 letters: ampere, ampler, armpit, camper, cramps, damper, gramps, hamper, impair, impark, impart, mapper, markup, palmar, palmer, pamper, paramo, praams, preamp, prearm, preman, primal, primas, ramped, remaps, revamp, tamper, tramps, vamper, warmup.

+3 letters: amperes, amphora, armpits, campers, camphor, campier, champer, clamper, compare, compart, cramped, crampit, crampon, dampers, empaler, emporia, epigram, grampus, gripman, hampers, harumph, impairs, impaler, imparks, imparts, impearl, imperia, impresa, lampers, lamprey, lempira, manrope, mantrap, mappers, markups, marplot, meropia, mispart, morphia, offramp, palmary, palmers, palmier, palmyra, pampero, pampers, pangram, paramos, paronym, patamar, preamps, prearms, pregame, premade, premeal, prename, prewarm, primacy, primage, primary, primate, primula, program, propman, prosoma, pugmark, pyramid, rampage, rampant, rampart, rampike, ramping, rampion, rampole, restamp, revamps, roadmap, sampler, scamper, spammer, stamper, swamper, tampers, taproom, tempera, templar, tempura, tramped, tramper, trample, vampers, vampire, warmups.