Definition: cram
cram
v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, wad, pack]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely
filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: fill
up, fill, stuff, jam]
4: 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]
5: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [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.
Cram \Cram\, v. i.
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.]
Cram \Cram\, n.
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.
Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001
CRAM
Card Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)
CRAM
Cache RAM (RAM)
