cram
see also: Cram
Pronunciation
Cram
Proper noun
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see also: Cram
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹæm/
cram (crams, present participle cramming; past and past participle crammed)
- (transitive) To press#Verb|press, force#Verb|force, or drive#Verb|drive, particularly in fill#Verb|filling, or in thrust#Verb|thrusting one thing into another; to stuff#Verb|stuff; to fill#Verb|fill to superfluity#Noun|superfluity.
- to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
- (transitive) To fill with food to satiety#Noun|satiety; to stuff.
- The boy crammed himself with cake
- (transitive) To put hastily#Adverb|hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
- A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
- (intransitive) To study#Verb|study hard; to swot#Verb|swot.
- (intransitive) To eat#Verb|eat greedily#Adverb|greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
- (intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- (transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
- French: bourrer, ficher, foutre, emmancher, fourrer
- German: stopfen, vollpacken
- Italian: stivare
- Portuguese: entupir
- Russian: вти́скивать
- Spanish: atestar, atiborrar, embutir
- French: gaver, bourrer, farcir, truffer
- German: mästen, vollstopfen
- Portuguese: empanturrar
- Russian: (transitive, "feed plenty of") отка́рмливать
- Spanish: atiborrar (colloquial), atracar (colloquial), atestar (colloquial)
- French: bachoter
- Russian: зубри́ть
- French: se gaver, se bourrer, se remplir, (colloquial) bâfrer
- Portuguese: entupir-se
- Russian: пожира́ть
cram
- The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- Information hastily memorized.
- a cram from an examination
- (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
- (uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
- A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
- Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
- (lie) see Thesaurus:lie
- French: bourrage, remplissage
- Portuguese: entupimento
- Russian: да́вка
- Portuguese: decoreba
- Russian: зубрёжка
Cram
Proper noun
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