What's the difference between ramage and rampage?

Ramage


Definition:

  • (n.) Boughs or branches.
  • (n.) Warbling of birds in trees.
  • (a.) Wild; untamed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "As this new, nationwide survey clearly shows, Japan fisheries agency bureaucrats' claims of public support for whaling are as wrong and outdated as the practice they seek to defend," Ramage said.
  • (2) "The government of Korea made the right call and should be commended for it," said Patrick Ramage, the director of the fund's global whale programme.
  • (3) "The people of Japan are taking whale meat off the menu," said Patrick Ramage, director of the fund's global whale programme.
  • (4) Douglas Ramage, an expert on Indonesia at analysts Bower Group Asia, says Jokowi's popularity springs from the perception that he is something many Indonesian politicians seemingly are not – overwhelmingly honest and sincere.
  • (5) Subs: Phillips, Garvan, Dobbie, Wilbraham, Williams, Alexander, Ramage.
  • (6) There will be departures, too, with Aaron Wilbraham, Peter Ramage, Owen Garvan and Darcy Blake potentially to leave.
  • (7) Patrick Ramage, the director of Ifaw's global whale programme, said that was due in part to the influence wielded by politicians representing coastal fishing communities with links to whaling, and bureaucrats at the fisheries agency.
  • (8) "The fisheries agency is using international opposition to whaling to build domestic support," Ramage said.
  • (9) DF Crystal Palace Ins Yaya Sanogo (Arsenal, loan), Pape Souaré (Lille, £3.45m), Jordon Mutch (QPR, £4.75m), Shola Ameobi (free agent), Andreas Breimyr (Bryne, undisc), Wilfried Zaha (Manchester United, £3m); Keshi Anderson (Barton Rovers, undisc); Lee Chung-yong (Bolton, £750,000) Outs Stuart O’Keefe (Cardiff, undisc), Jack Hunt and Zeki Fryers (both Rotherham, loan), Andrew Johnson (released), Jimmy Kébé (released), Alex Wynter (Colchester, undisc), Peter Ramage (Barnsley, loan), Jake Gray (Cheltenham, loan), Lewis Price (Crawley, loan), Andreas Breimyr (Bryne, loan), Barry Bannan (Bolton, loan) Alan Pardew and the Palace board will be satisfied with their month’s work having added extensively to their first-team options.They have secured a natural left-back, two reinforcements up front, two versatile attacking midfielders and, in Zaha, a club favourite .
  • (10) Ramage said: "Whale watching is an economically beneficial alternative that's taking off in Japan and deserves government support."
  • (11) "He's got this persuasive quality about him and he is also seen as decisive," says Ramage.

Rampage


Definition:

  • (v.) Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.
  • (v. i.) To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
  • (2) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
  • (3) Armed with an assault rifle, he then allegedly headed into two poor villages in Kandahar province, the Taliban's heartland, and went on a murderous rampage in which six people were also injured.
  • (4) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
  • (5) The three-day rampage by 10 gunmen in 2008 killed 166 people.
  • (6) Quite rightly, the appearance of the rampaging hordes of women whom David Cameron has promoted has been criticised.
  • (7) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
  • (8) The Bournemouth defender Adam Smith rampaged down the right flank, crossing for the on-running Ritchie, who sent a flying header towards goal, only for his effort to be tipped over by Elliot.
  • (9) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (10) "This is not about letting people go on the rampage.
  • (11) The result is a rampaging drug-fuelled and illicit economy on the wings that engenders criminality rather than deters it.
  • (12) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
  • (13) In July 2013, rampaging asylum seekers torched the centre, causing $60m worth of damage.
  • (14) The mob violence was followed the next day by retaliatory attacks by gangs of Middle Eastern youths who went on the rampage in the beachside suburb, smashing cars and beating up innocent passers-by.
  • (15) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (16) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
  • (17) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old delivery driver and father, was shot dead by police after killing 84 people, including 10 children and teenagers, and injuring scores more in a deadly Bastille Day rampage.
  • (18) But, in a gallery a few steps away, the courage and creativity of students whose biggest moment was wrecked by the fire that rampaged through Charles Rennie Mackintosh's great building last month makes for what must be the most moving of this summer's graduate exhibitions.
  • (19) The new TV advert featuring Barton is part of the Demand a Plan campaign that brings Mayors Against Illegal Guns together with the survivors of rampages and victims families to call for a concrete legislative plan to reduce the annual carnage.
  • (20) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.

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