(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.
Drum
Definition:
(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
(n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
(n.) See Drumfish.
(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
(n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.
(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
(v. i.) To throb, as the heart.
(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.
(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(2) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(4) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(5) The frequency of OKN was also decreased, and the total deviation of the eyes was reduced for OKN induced by these drum speeds.
(6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
(7) It’s drummed into us from the first day of medical school: “First, do no harm.” We can do without tepid, faux-conflicted advice from the likes of Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS.
(8) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
(9) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
(10) 5.55pm BST Can you hear the drums of doubt Fernando?
(11) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(12) Lee sang, tap-danced and did comic turns before settling on the drums.
(13) Reitzell, who drums with Air, warns me during my nail-biting wait that Shields tends to work all night and sleep all day and never answers his phone.
(14) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
(15) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(16) Pro-China groups had been told they could not use drums to try to drown out rights activists .
(17) Overall, it's an attempt to portray most of a continent (and if you refer to his original speech , Pakistan as well) as an undifferentiated mass of uncivilised people who have just enough sophistication to rip us off by spending our money on sunglasses, but otherwise are happy with their drums.
(18) I am very clear that I want to ensure we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works for everyone across the United Kingdom and all parts of the UK when we enter these negotiation,” said the prime minister in Wales, at the start of a whirlwind UK tour aimed at drumming up last-minute support from the devolved administrations.
(19) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
(20) Thus, in the case of foaming capacity, losses ranging from 17% to 34% were detected in the drum-dried hydrolysate, and of 38% to 49% in the hydrolysate dehydrated using a spray drier, during the first two months of storage.