What's the difference between cram and tram?

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.

Tram


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
  • (n.) The shaft of a cart.
  • (n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
  • (n.) A car on a horse railroad.
  • (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
  • (2) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
  • (3) Both the TraM* and TraM' proteins were found to bind specifically to a broad region preceding the traM gene.
  • (4) This is true not only for TRAM and latissimus dorsi flaps, but also for the mastectomy flap necrosis sometimes encountered in immediate reconstruction with simple implants or tissue expanders.
  • (5) The fertility control gene finP, the transfer gene traM, and the transfer origin, oriT, of plasmid R100 were isolated on a single 1.2-kilobase EcoRV fragment and were then subcloned as HaeIII fragments.
  • (6) Before leaving for Afghanistan, Dahmane was a regular at an Islamic Centre in Molenbeek and met Malika el-Aroud, who later became his wife, at a tram stop in the city.
  • (7) How to buy tickets for a train or a tram, why we shouldn’t eat in the street or talk loudly on our cell phones, how we must talk to women … I want to stay here; it’s important to understand.” Like nearly 5,000 fellow asylum seekers in Vienna, Wafa lives in a large emergency refugee shelter and is awaiting a move to longer-term accommodation either in Vienna or elsewhere in Austria.
  • (8) Among these findings, tram-tracking of the optic nerve sheath complex is rare.
  • (9) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
  • (10) Until now, application of a TRAM free flap, however, has only taken place in special circumstances.
  • (11) The complication rate was equal for both groups (24%) with infection being most common in the group of patients with tissue expansion and partial flap necrosis being most common in the group of patients with TRAM flaps.
  • (12) Two reconstructive techniques were used, that is, either tissue expansion with secondary prosthesis implantation (60%) or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap (40%).
  • (13) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
  • (14) In this population, being a bus or tram driver was an independent predictor of CHD of considerable magnitude.
  • (15) Of the 7 of 20 (35 percent) free TRAM flap patients who required post-operative chemotherapy, only 1 of 7 (14 percent) was delayed because of TRAM flap complications.
  • (16) By hybridizing the IncFVII haemolytic plasmid pSU233 with a probe containing the origin of transfer of the IncFII plasmid R1, we isolated a 1.9 kb BglII fragment containing at least the origin of transfer (oriT), and the genes traM and finP.
  • (17) The characteristic findings of diffuse panbronchiolitis are diffuse small nodular shadows, overinflation and tram-lines.
  • (18) With crime falling and public transport improving, especially with the new tram networks, people want to live in urban areas like never before.
  • (19) He demonstrates a case of bilateral reconstruction of the breasts by means of a TRAM flap.
  • (20) The possible roles of the traI and traM products in conjugation are discussed.