rams

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to hit or push something with force:

Someone rammed (into) my car while it was parked outside my house.

He rammed the sweets/his pipe into his mouth.

I rammed down the soil around the fence post.

She slammed the door and rammed home the bolt (= closed it forcefully and completely).

an adult male sheep that can breed

a piece of equipment used to hit something and force it open or break it:

They used a ram to break down the door.

a moving part in a machine that puts pressure or force on something

abbreviation for random access memory: a type of computer memory that can be searched in any order and changed as necessary

to hit or push with force:

[ I/T ] Someone rammed (into) my car in the parking lot.

[ T ] fig. The governor tried to ram the budget through in the last days of the legislative session.

an adult male sheep

abbreviation for random-access memory (= a type of computer memory that can be searched in any order and changed as necessary)

abbreviation for random access memory: a type of computer memory that stores data that can be searched by programs. The speed of searches, as well as the number of searches that can be made at the same time, increases with the size of the RAM:

Increasing a PC's RAM is one of the most popular hardware enhancements people undertake.

At this price, the model includes 512MB of RAM.