(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.
Study
Definition:
(v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
(v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
(v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
(v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
(v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
(v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude.
(n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
(n.) To apply the mind to books or learning.
(n.) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
(v. t.) To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.
(v. t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.
(v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.
(v. t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) We studied further the serum with the highest titer.
(3) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(4) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(5) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(6) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(7) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(8) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(9) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(10) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(11) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(12) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(13) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(14) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(15) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(16) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(17) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(18) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(19) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(20) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.