What's the difference between ramp and romp?

Ramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
  • (v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
  • (v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
  • (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
  • (n.) A highwayman; a robber.
  • (n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.
  • (n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
  • (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
  • (n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
  • (2) Stiffness was reduced in approximate proportion to the ramp stretch rate, and the reduction was confined largely to the elastic component.
  • (3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
  • (4) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
  • (5) Fiber activity was assessed by applying to the Achilles tendon a 5-mm ramp stretch at 5 or 25-30 mm X s-1.
  • (6) Phasic-tonic MUs exhibited a phasic burst of activity during the torque ramp which exceeded the firing rate during the static hold period.
  • (7) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
  • (8) This report considers the accuracy of the measurement method as a function of ramp width.
  • (9) Slow-adapting free nerve endings were also observed through response to square wave pressure stimuli and ramp shaped pressure stimuli.
  • (10) The ventilatory sensitivity to CO2 obtained from a non-steady-state step-ramp CO2 challenge (analogous to the Read rebreathing method) was compared with the one of the steady-state method.
  • (11) These findings indicate that muscle length does influence the discharge pattern of motor unit spike trains during isometric ramp contractions.
  • (12) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
  • (13) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
  • (14) Wheelchair ramps Raul Krauthausen is the man behind Wheelmap, a crowdsourced map of wheelchair-friendly places around the world.
  • (15) An IBM PC-compatible computer program, RAMP, for evaluation of single-channel recordings acquired using voltage ramp protocols is presented.
  • (16) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
  • (17) The aim of this work was to provide well defined criteria for ramp construction for wheelchair dependent individuals (WDI).
  • (18) The council apparently told Lally that the giant ramp was the only option because of building regulations.
  • (19) The findings suggest that with the stimulator used in this study, ramp time has no effect on the three basic excitatory responses, i.e., thresholds of sensory, motor and painful stimulation.
  • (20) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.

Romp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
  • (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
  • (n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
  • (2) Our assays amplified a 500 bp fragment from the gene encoding the rOmp B protein of Rickettsia rickettsii.
  • (3) The first part of the evening saw the singer romp through hits including Let's Go Crazy alongside new songs such as Fixurlifeup with his band 3rdEyedGirl.
  • (4) Arevalo flicks a couple of one-twos down a romp along the inside-left channel, first with Forlan, then with Suarez.
  • (5) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
  • (6) It was a sado-masochistic romp and I was given a copy in France in the 1960s when it was probably illegal in England.
  • (7) With nine out of 10 Greater Manchester councils run by or dominated by Labour, the Labour candidate is expected to romp to victory unless a celebrity Mancunian like Noel Gallagher comes to the fore and steals the show.
  • (8) The votes are in for next month's Reading Group choice, and following a late surge, Bleak House has romped home.
  • (9) Welbeck romps down the inside-left channel but slices a poor shot high into the stands.
  • (10) Running against the US's Tyson Gay, who has disappointed in these Games, you had the feeling that Blake was never going to allow his friend and training partner anything other than a victory romp to the line.
  • (11) A romp through the kinky silliness that’ll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers.
  • (12) Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
  • (13) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
  • (14) Southampton’s Sadio Mané joins treble of doubles in 6-0 romp at MK Dons Read more Asamoah, selected ahead of Carlisle’s leading goalscorer Jabo Ibehre, had gone close to converting Alex McQueen’s low cross as his side responded to their manager’s call for greater intent.
  • (15) He has also romped as Casanova , probed as DI Carlisle in the TV musical-drama Blackpool , theorised as cerebral scientist Arthur Eddington in Einstein And Eddington (stick a pair of specs on him and he's as dull as the next man), played Hamlet quite beautifully (awkward and paranoid, yet graceful) and appeared in a number of none-too-impressive movies.
  • (16) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
  • (17) From finally breaking his two year drought in the friendly against Germany (which lest we forget came on the back of a worryingly easy romp of a win for Belgium in the first friendly of this five game sequence), Altidore's goals turned out to be worth 7 of the 9 points the US amassed in their surge to the top of the standings.
  • (18) Smith romped home with an 11% swing and immediately, national Liberal poll ratings almost doubled.
  • (19) It's not something that has been done before: even Whedon opted for a breezy romp which used humour to paper over the preposterous logic cracks in his bombastic superhero ensemble.
  • (20) Yet Klopp still managed to be a breath of fresh air, a ball of pent-up fury when Liverpool were wayward in the early exchanges, a beaming, tracksuited, slightly messy creator of happiness and fun when they romped away with the points thanks to late goals from Coutinho and Benteke.