ram

ram is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
2. noun. Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
3. noun. The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
4. noun. An engine of war used for butting or battering.
5. noun. In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
6. noun. A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
7. noun. A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
8. noun. The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
9. noun. The plunger of a hydraulic press.
10. transitive verb. To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
11. transitive verb. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
12. noun. uncastrated adult male sheep

    "a British term is `tup'"

    Synonyms: tup

13. noun. a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
14. noun. the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
15. noun. the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19

    Synonyms: aries

16. noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

    Synonyms: aries

17. verb. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

    "She rammed her mind into focus"

    "He drives me mad"

    Synonyms: drive, force

18. verb. crowd or pack to capacity

    "the theater was jampacked"

    Synonyms: cram, jam, jampack, wad

19. verb. undergo damage or destruction on impact

    "the plane crashed into the ocean"

    "The car crashed into the lamp post"

    Synonyms: crash

20. verb. strike or drive against with a heavy impact

    "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"

    "pound on the door"

    Synonyms: pound

Synonyms

tup, aries, drive, force, cram, jam, jampack, wad, crash, pound

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ram:

arm, mar

Common word forms

rams, ramal, ramed, ramen, rammed, rammer, ramous, ramming

Words from these letters

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