ram
英 [ræm]
美 [ræm]
- abbr.ランダム?アクセス?メモリ; ランダム?アクセス?メモリ
- n. ram; battering ram; ramming device; ramming horns; [機械]（油圧プレスの）ピストン.
- v.突っ込む; 満たす; 押し通すまたは受け止める
- n. （ラム）人の名前；（イギリス、インド、ネパール、ブータン、スウェーデン）ラム
語源
ram ラム、ランマー、突進装置古英語のramm、ramから。関連語から派生。
英語の語源
- ram
- ram: [OE] Ram is a general West Germanic word for ‘male sheep’, now shared only by Dutch (although German has the derivative ramme ‘rammer’). It may be related to Old Norse ramr ‘strong’, the allusion being to the ram’s strength in butting. This is reflected in the word’s metaphorical applications: it was being used in Old English for a ‘battering-ram’, and by the 14th century the verb ram had emerged.
Another relative is the verb ramble [17], which etymologically denotes ‘wander around like a randy ram, looking for ewes to copulate with’. It was borrowed from Middle Dutch rammelen, a derivative of rammen ‘copulate with’, which is connected with ram.
=> ramble - ram (v.)
- "to beat with a heavy implement," c. 1300, from ram (n.). Related: Rammed; ramming.
- ram (n.)
- Old English ramm "male sheep," also "battering ram" and the zodiac sign; earlier rom "male sheep," a West Germanic word (cognates: Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German ram), of unknown origin. Perhaps [Klein] connected with Old Norse rammr "strong," Old Church Slavonic ramenu "impetuous, violent."
- RAM (n.)
- 1957, acronym for random access memory (computerese).
例文
- 1. They used a lorry to ram the main gate.
- 彼らはトラックでドアに激突した。
- 2.The kids who are joyriding and ram -rading are unemployed.
- 盗んだ車で暴れたり、車で強盗をしたりする若者は無職だ。
- 3.They got a battering ram to smash down the door.
- 彼らは大きな木槌でドアを突き破った。
- 4.I can 't understand why we 're trying to ram Shakespeare down their throats.
- シェイクスピアの作品を学ばなければならない理由がわからない。
- 5.512 k RAM is recommended and 640 k RAM is preferred.
- 推奨構成は512 Kメモリ、640 Kメモリの方が良い。