(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?
Tup
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To butt, as a ram does.
(v. t. & i.) To cover; -- said of a ram.
(n.) A ram.
Example Sentences:
(1) apparently not to be due to any mutation such as typ, tup, tmp, per or tum.
(2) Essentially all mutants (called tup) selected in this way required dTMP for growth in the presence of the two drugs, but none required dTMP in the absence of the drugs.
(3) To achieve a high conception rate, tupping should take place under supervision.
(4) In this study, the composition of the catheter had no bearing on subsequent stricture formation following TUP.
(5) The greatest number of prolapses occurred in an upland flock of greyface ewes mated with Suffolk tups with 50 cases among 700 ewes (7.1 per cent) and the highest prevalence was in an upland Scottish blackface flock of ewes bred with Suffolk tups with 15.2 per cent (35 cases among 230 ewes).
(6) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) correlated significantly with the total urinary protein (TUP) in 24-hour urine collections in patients with glomerular disease (p less than 0.05 to p less than 0.001).
(7) The sot1 mutation specifically blocks the uptake of dTMP into tup strains.
(8) [3H]ATP incorporation was Mg2+-dependent, sensitive to ribonuclease and EDTA and resistant to deoxyribonuclease and actinomycin D. There was no incorporation of [3H]UTP or [3H]dTTP and addition of TUP, CTP and GTP did not increase the incorporation of [3H]ATP.
(9) 5.01pm GMT Some MPs’ comments on Twitter: Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) No question Andrew Mitchell has tupped the ante considerably.
(10) At puberty, 40 days of age, the excretion of TUP corresponded to the output of alpha2u-globulin.
(11) From 100 to 200 days of age, TUP remained constant while the excretion of albumin steadily increased.
(12) A short description is given of the techniques for percutaneous transhepatic (PTP) and transumbilical (TUP) portal Venous catheterization and their use for direct selective catheterization of the portal vein and its tributaries.
(13) The sot1 mutation maps between rad1 and the centromere of chromosome XVI, and is unlinked to any of the tup mutations.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Herdwick ram is prepared for showing at the annual Keswick Tup fair.
(15) Renal function was assessed by daily total urinary protein (TUP), plasma creatinine concentration [(Cr)p] and creatinine clearance rate.
(16) Thereafter, the excretion of albumin and TUP increased markedly whereas alpha2u excretion remained constant.
(17) Thirteen patients with urethral stenoses of different etiopathology underwent TUP with an angioplasty balloon catheter.
(18) After 150--180 days of age, the concentrations of alpha2u and albumin in TUP were approximately equal.
(19) Positive correlations were found between GSC and SBP and TUP.
(20) Because latex rubber catheters have been implicated in urethral stricture formation, the incidence of urethral strictures following transurethral prostatectomy (TUP) and subsequent catheterisation with latex rubber or polyvinyl chloride catheters was compared.