(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.
Trig
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill; to stuff; to cram.
(a.) Full; also, trim; neat.
(v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
(n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(2) This trig pulse controls the acquisition of the ultrasound images.
(3) Monthly measurements were conduced of the following activities, in the period between post infection days 160 and 400: total protein (TPR), albumin (ALB), cholesterol (CHOL), triglycerides (TRIG), Zn and Cu concentrations as well as sorbitol dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (alpha-HBDH), gamma-glutamyltransferase, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatine kinase (CK), alkaline phosphatase and fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase (ALD).
(4) These were SBP with age, Hct with T Ca, and T Chol with Trig.
(5) For the men only, Hgb was correlated with HDL-C, Trig, T Ca, and P; and HDL-C was correlated with Trig.
(6) But days later she had become critically ill from meningitis trigged by the lingering virus in her nervous system.
(7) Testing-Eating Frequency was associated with HA1C and Injection was associated with TRIG; in both cases better adherence was associated with better metabolic control.
(8) SBP, DBP, Hgb, and Trig of the women were lower than those of the men; and HDL-C and phosphorus of the women were higher.
(9) The results indicated that bereaved parents' intensity of grieving scores were generally higher than those reported on the TRIG norms.
(10) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) pressures and heart rates (HR) were recorded, and 24-ml blood samples were obtained from an antecubital vein and analyzed for hemoglobin (Hgb), hematocrit (Hct), HDL-C, total cholesterol (T Chol), triglycerides (Trig), total calcium (T Ca), ionized calcium (Ca++), and phosphorus (P).
(11) TPR, ALB, TRIG, and CHOL were reduced by day 400, in conjunction with disorders of digestion and absorption.
(12) Failure to absorb dietary fat is managed by a low-fat diet and by medium-chain trigly-cerides which are absorbed in the absence of intestinal bile salts.
(13) 2 Go through the gate on the right and follow the surfaced path through the ancient ramparts of the hill fort to the summit trig point.
(14) Serum CK and ALD activities as well as TRIG and TPR concentrations may serve as aids to specific diagnosis of paratuberculosis, particularly in the advanced stage of the disease.
(15) In the period between PI day 160 and 400 fifteen biochemical parameters were measured monthly, TRP, ALP, TRIG and CHOL were reduced by day 400, pointing to disorders of digestion and absorption.
(16) The influences of the apolipoprotein E (Apo E) polymorphism and of gender on the distributions of plasma levels of total cholesterol (Total-C), 1n triglycerides (1n Trig), HDL cholesterol (HDL-C), and apolipoproteins AI (Apo AI), AII (Apo AII), 1n E (1nApo E), B (Apo B), CII (Apo CII), and 1n CIII (1nApo CIII) were studied in 507 unrelated individuals representative of the adult population of Rochester, MN.
(17) The main conclusion of the study is: In the lymphocytokinetic system the T lymphocytes must play a guiding role as an afferent vector, trigging the B fractions which thus constitute the efferent vector of the system.
(18) Activities of the iron complexes of evolutionary importance like K4[Fe(CN)6], K4[Fe(CN)5(gly)], and K4[Fe(CN)5(trigly)] have been tested towards some redox reactions of biological significance, namely, decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, dehydrogenation of NADH and ascorbic acid both coupled with reduction of methylene blue.
(19) In October, the country opened fire at giant balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets floated across the border by South Korean activists, trigging an exchange of gunfire with South Korean troops.
(20) But bear in mind You'll need sturdy footwear, and should keep to the path at alltimes to avoid the 150m-drop 60m from the trig point.