(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
(3) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(4) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(5) Castrated rams did not show this increase, with or without supplementary testosterone.
(6) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
(7) Four rams each were either hemicastrated (HC) or left intact (INT) and blood samples were collected over a 2-wk period.
(8) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(9) The ability of melatonin to influence LH pulse frequency in entire and castrated rams indicated that an effect of melatonin on the hypothalamic pulse generator is independent of testicular steroids.
(10) In addition, there was a marginally significant (P less than 0.1) relationship between prolactin secretion in the castrate ram and the stage of testicular activity in the entire rams with elevated levels associated with regressed activity.
(11) The effect of alpha-chlorohydrin on the metabolism of glycolytic and tricarboxylate-cycle substrates by ram spermatozoa was investigated.
(12) In the present study the influence of the period of the light cycle on variation in testicular weight in the ram was investigated.
(13) The androgenized ewes showed poorer oestrous responses to each hormone although rams showed interest in the ewes.
(14) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(15) The effect of naloxone administration on the LH-RH secretion in hypophyseal portal blood and LH secretion in peripheral blood was studied in four short term castrated rams (between 2 to 4 days after castration).
(16) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(17) Macrophages and various subtypes of lymphocytes were identified in the ram and the rat testis by using cytochemical and immunocytochemical techniques.
(18) The tail(s) of the epididymis was the most frequent site of lesion development in the mature rams (86.4%).
(19) The interactions of ram spermatozoa with exogenous liposomes of varying composition were studied, with the aim of examining the mechanisms by which some lipids protect against cold-induced damage during cryostorage.
(20) 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?
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.