Cram
[kræm]
Definition
(verb.) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam.
(verb.) study intensively, as before an exam; 'I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam'.
(verb.) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; 'cram books into the suitcase'.
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
(v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
(v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
(v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
(v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
(n.) The act of cramming.
(n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
(n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Stuff, gorge, glut, fill full, fill to repletion.[2]. Crowd, press, compress.
v. n. [1]. Eat to satiety, eat greedily.[2]. [Colloquial.] Study for examination.
Edited by Dorothy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stuff, choke, squeeze, ram, pack, gorge
ANT:Disgorge, vent, discharge, unload, unpack, eviscerate, empty, eliminate
Checked by Amy
Definition
v.t. to press close: to stuff: to fill to superfluity: (slang) to make believe false or exaggerated tales: to teach for a special examination only giving instruction useful for passing that examination.—v.i. to eat greedily: to get up a subject by cram:—pr.p. cram′ming; pa.p. crammed.—n. a crush: (slang) a lie: information that has been crammed: the system of cramming.—adjs. Cram′-full; Cram′mable; Crammed.—n. Cram′mer one who prepares students for examination by cramming them.
Typist: Perry
Examples
- Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty--cram full of gout, too. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'd open one of those doors, and I'd cram 'em all in, and then I'd lock the door and through the keyhole I'd blow in pepper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was another of her ways of forming a mind--to cram all articles of difficulty into cupboards, lock them up, and say they had no existence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If you want to cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you to a better adviser than Loo Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His determination to cram down their throats, or put 'bodily into their souls' his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
- Godfrey Staunton had crammed the note into his pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He crammed what little food was left, into the breast of his gray jacket. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All the world were, or wished they were there, but many could not get further than the passage, the whole house being so crammed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- How nicely we are all crammed in, cried Lydia. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Some were crammed into the crevices of the wall”'; (Here Mr Venus looked at the wall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Who crammed it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I'm not going to take him at once; he is to finish his educational cramming before then,' said Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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