ramps

6 definitions • 6 examples

an artificial slope:

I pushed the wheelchair up the ramp and into the supermarket.

a raised strip built into a road to make vehicles drive more slowly

a short road on which vehicles join or leave a main road

a North American wild plant of the allium family (= that includes onions and garlic), which has a strong taste and smell and can be eaten:

Ramps are a sign of spring in the eastern mountain states of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The North American plant allium tricoccum, known as ramps, is related to the European wild garlic, allium ursinum.

The humble ramp has become very much part of our food culture.

a surface connecting a higher and a lower level; a slope:

Wide ramps flanked the stairs at the entrance.

A ramp is also a road that lets you drive onto or leave a large road, such as an expressway:

an entrance/exit ramp