ramp
noun
- architectural element to connect two different levels
- connection between two roads
- device, which is used to overcome a height difference
verb
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Pronunciation: /ɹæmp/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ramp.
- A surname from German.
noun
Etymology: ]See ramson.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
“A ramp is a potently flavored wild scallion, a vegetable with staying power.”
- A promiscuous man or woman.
“And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]”
- A worthless person.
verb
Etymology: From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
- To behave violently; to rage.
“Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,”
- To swindle or rob violently.
“In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.”
- To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
“Their bridles they would champe, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely rampe.”
“I've seen a ramping equestrian statue of General St. Clare on the Embankment.”
- To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
“Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]”
“With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, […] and so ramping upon trees, […]they mount up to a great height.”
- To stand in a rampant position.
“And that lyon gaped wyde and came vpon hym raumppynge to haue slayne hym.”
- To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
“If Q(t)lt;qᵖ then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.”
“The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.”
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.