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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cram \Cram\, verb (used without an object)
1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. --Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cram \Cram\, noun
1. The act of cramming.
2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. {Cramp}.]
1. 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.
Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. --Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. --Shak.
3. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cram
verb
1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: {jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {wad}]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {grind away}, {drum}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot up}, {bone}]
4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam [also: {cramming}, {crammed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "cram": allay, assault, batten, bear, bear upon, bolt, bolt down, bone up, boost, brim, brush up, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, charge, chock, choke, cloy, coach, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, congest, consolidate, cram in, cram up, cram with facts, crowd, crowd in, crush, densen, densify, devour, dig, drench, drive, drive in, elbow, engorge, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, force, force in, freight, get up, get up on, glut, gluttonize, goad, gobble, gorge, gormandize, grind, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, heap, hurtle, hustle, impact, ingurgitate, jab, jade, jam, jam in, jam-pack, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, knock in, lade, live to eat, load, lucubrate, nudge, overburden, overcharge, overdose, overeat, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, overlade, overload, oversaturate, overstuff, overweight, pack, pack in, pad, pall, pang, pile drive, plunge in, poke, poke in, polish up, pound in, press, press in, prime, prod, punch, push, push in, ram, ram down, ram in, rattle, raven, read up on, review, rub up, run, run against, run in, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, shake, shoulder, shove, slake, slop, soak, solidify, squash, squeeze, squeeze in, stress, study, study up, study up on, stuff, stuff in, stuff with knowledge, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swot, tamp, tamp in, thrust, thrust in, top off, tutor, wad, wedge, wedge in, weight, wolf, wolf down
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CRAM Cache RAM (RAM)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CRAM Card Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)
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