What's the difference between cram and stuff?

Cram


Definition:

  • (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.

Stuff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
  • (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
  • (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
  • (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
  • (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
  • (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
  • (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
  • (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
  • (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
  • (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  • (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
  • (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  • (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
  • (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
  • (4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
  • (5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
  • (8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
  • (10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
  • (11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
  • (12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
  • (15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
  • (20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.