What's the difference between crammed and cramped?

Crammed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cram

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.

Cramped


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cramp

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
  • (2) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
  • (3) Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients.
  • (4) The 1st gynecologic consultant was called after the patient experienced severe cramps and passage of part of a placenta.
  • (5) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
  • (6) When there's a very limited stock of social housing, and very long waiting lists for people who need it, and lots of big families living in very cramped conditions, that isn't wrong at all.
  • (7) They also complained of exercise-induced stiffening and cramps of their leg muscles.
  • (8) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
  • (9) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
  • (10) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
  • (11) For chronic phantom and stump pain, burning sensations are treated with interventions designed to increase blood flow to the residual limb, whereas cramping sensations are treated with interventions that reduce muscle spasms.
  • (12) Post-prandial cramping abdominal pain may be an early symptom of thrombosis, demanding immediate anticoagulation.
  • (13) Our purpose was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of single oral doses of ketoprofen 25, 50, and 100 mg compared with aspirin 650 mg and placebo in the relief of moderate to severe postepisiotomy, uterine cramping, or cesarean section pain.
  • (14) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
  • (15) The four-bedroom apartments are cramped and austere, but they sell for more than $100,000.
  • (16) Epidural morphine is used for postcesarean analgesia, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are frequently administered to relieve uterine cramps after vaginal delivery.
  • (17) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (18) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
  • (19) 65% (140) quit because of side effects, usually pregnancy-like symptoms (such as nausea or weight gain), or menstrual symptoms (such as hemorrhaging or cramps).
  • (20) Funes Mori will commence a three-match ban on Saturday, John Stones was forced out of the derby with stomach cramps, Phil Jagielka is recovering from a hamstring strain and Seamus Coleman is almost certainly out with a similar injury.