(v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
(v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
(v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
(v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
(v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
(n.) The act of cramming.
(n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
(n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CRAMS scale was easy to apply and accurately identified both the critically injured who should be triaged to a Level I center and the less critically injured who can be adequately cared for by Level II and III centers.
(2) I try to pick it up and discover it's a deadweight, crammed with electronics (the excitable hair is controlled by a grip in the hands).
(3) In Gaza City, tens of thousands crammed into an area where a huge stage was set up, decorated with a mural depicting Shalit's capture in a June 2006 raid on an army base near the Gaza border.
(4) More and more people, machines and fabric bales were crammed inside until the load-bearing columns cracked apart.
(5) For leaves well into autumn, sow a few seeds every week or two until late summer; large lettuces should be grown about 20-40cm apart, while cut‑and-come-again leaves can be crammed in as tight as you can get them.
(6) The TS identified as major trauma more patients admitted to the hospital than did the CRAMS scale (33% vs 21%; P less than .0001).
(7) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(8) My house is often crammed with uniform-wearing girls, and no two of them ever look the same.
(9) Before Obama spoke, activists had warned the dozens of people who’d crammed into the office of Hermandad Mexicana, an immigrant advocacy group based a few miles from the Las Vegas strip, that Obama’s move was a big but incomplete step, that their struggle would continue until all law-abiding undocumented migrants had a path to citizenship.
(10) Mechanism of injury, CRAMS, TS, and GCS may be useful in the early identification of a particularly high-risk group.
(11) Most head straight to the country’s northern border with Macedonia, where they cram on to trains and head north through Serbia and Hungary on their way to more prosperous EU countries such as Germany, the Netherlands or Sweden.
(12) It is dispiriting, to say the least, as a female voter, to read an article criticising a party for being "crammed" with female politicians when it has reached the dizzying heights of a roughly 30:70 gender split .
(13) It looks as if someone, in a great hurry, has crammed details of the most banal US shopping mall design of the late 1980s and more recent Chinese design into a laptop in their student bedsit, pressed the "print" button and then, unbelievably, convinced someone, in an equal hurry, to build them.
(14) In Poland , where temperatures have dropped to -22C, officials have been trying to direct homeless people away from derelict unheated buildings and into crammed shelters.
(15) This was the crowd crammed into the Echo ( attheecho.com ) a Monday night earlier this month to listen to Weave and Foreign Born's experimental spin-off band Fool's Gold.
(16) Photograph: Alan Markfield Johnson has crammed Looper with these subtle touches.
(17) But here inBritain – crammed into a shabby and overcrowded carriage on your way (thank God) out of your stressful City job – is there any joy to the journey?
(18) In those days, even more than these, a woman had to be more hard-working, more ruthless, tougher and more crammed with self-belief than any man in order to achieve equality, let alone gain ascendancy.
(19) He would never have spoken to me without those first four episodes.” Box and his producer, Eric George, crammed 17 interviews into four days in Bowraville.
(20) One family of two adults and nine children are crammed into a small two-bedroom home that is flooded three or four times a year.
Craw
Definition:
(n.) The crop of a bird.
(n.) The stomach of an animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lactobacilli and streptococci were a stable component of the microflora of craw wall, in contrast with the decreasing counts of anaerobic amylolytic and lactate-utilizing bacteria.
(2) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
(3) He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “I would think in the next three months we are going to have a number of people brought forward by the Conservatives, whether it’s Gary Barlow or Mr Pessina, saying: ‘Don’t vote Labour.’ The idea that somebody who doesn’t pay tax in Britain telling people how to vote will stick in the craw.” Balls pointed out that Pessina criticised only one policy – the threat of leaving the European Union – something only likely under the Conservatives or Ukip.T he Tories insisted they had nothing to do with Pessina’s comments but George Osborne took the unusual step of providing a direct quote highlighting the businessman’s stance.
(4) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
(5) It was a very close play but Craw got his foot in before the tag and Matheny is out to argue which gets him nowhere.
(6) Though a minority of landlords may sell up as a result of the changes, this is unlikely to be as widespread as many believe.” The good news for tenants is that the tax changes could dampen property speculation and create a fairer market, according to Dan Wilson Craw of campaign group Generation Rent .
(7) 2.54am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 0, top of 6th Ryu continues to retire Cardinals - Carpenter grounds out to second, then Beltran skies out to right - Craw puts it away and down go the Cards in the sixth.
(8) It simply stuck in the craw that Edis was earning less than 10% of the daily fees enjoyed by some of his opponents.
(9) And if, like Jeremy Corbyn , you are a pacifist republican with an embedded horror of empire, being required to hum along will understandably stick in the craw.
(10) And seems those unflattering comparisons to Donovan have rather stuck in Brad Davis's craw.
(11) We watched as billionaire Alexei Mordashov's bags went from speeding people-carrier to private jet without so much as touching security: Photograph: Hannah Borno Not that I think Alexei Mordashov has been nicking the cutlery from the conference venue in order to melt it down into car parts, but it does slightly stick in my craw that as airport security for the average citizen gets ever tighter, airport security for the likes of the oligarch Mordashov barely exists.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Tory cries of ‘take back control’ really stick in my craw.
(13) The Tory cries of “take back control” really stick in my craw.
(14) But there were a few parts of the song that always stuck in my craw.
(15) Dan Wilson Craw from Generation Rent said: “The failure of governments to build enough houses is forcing more people to make compromises in order to afford a roof over their head.
(16) Michael Ayton Durham • Anne Perkins is correct ( The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it , 15 September, theguardian.com), and Corbyn should have been more sensitive both to the context of situation and the people he was collectively representing.
(17) And it's the last of these that sticks most in the craw, because the degree of over-representation is so extraordinarily intense.
(18) So the unexpected windfall in overall national wealth must stick in the craw of the eurozone strugglers.
(19) But however much it sticks in the craw to discover there is a market for gold-plated revolving safes, this is ultimately cause for celebration.
(20) The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it | Anne Perkins Read more This is no isolated view.