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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cram
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth
▪ Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ Beyond a flint wall was a small graveyard, the gravestones crammed in as though the corpses had been buried standing up.
▪ A broken toaster and sev-eral ripped window shades were crammed in near a cracked welding gun and a rotting fence post.
▪ On a big occasion 600 or so are crammed in.
■ NOUN
people
▪ The amount of people crammed into offices out here, they should have built longer trains.
▪ About 120 people were crammed on the truck as it headed to the city of Waterloo, 20 miles north of Freetown.
▪ With 64,000 people crammed into every square mile, the most utterly bizarre happenings raise barely a shrug of the shoulders.
▪ The 40,000 people crammed on to its terraces on May 9 had come to watch an execution.
■ VERB
try
▪ The Prussian infantryman clapped his hands to his sword-whipped face, trying to cram his eyes back into their sockets.
▪ But did anybody think they were going to try to cram all seven games into the first night?
▪ Don't try to cram too much hair around each roller.
▪ You can not blame him for trying to cram as much into 90 minutes as he possibly can.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crammed with/crammed full of sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Everyone's cramming for their final exams.
▪ I've procrastinated all semester, so I have a lot of cramming to do.
▪ You'll really have to cram if you want to pass the test.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His Paris-based years were crammed with travel, museum visits, contacts with major figures in the arts and formative aesthetic experiences.
▪ Other times they crammed into a vacant classroom.
▪ Silver cups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a huge arched brick fireplace.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cram

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 \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.

Cram

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cram

Old English crammian "press something into something else," from Proto-Germanic *kram-/*krem- (cognates: Old High German krimman "to press, pinch," Old Norse kremja "to squeeze, pinch"), from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (see gregarious). Meaning "study intensely for an exam" originally was British student slang first recorded 1803. Related: Crammed; cramming.

Wiktionary
cram

n. 1 The act of cramming. 2 Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. 3 A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. vb. 1 To press#Verb, force#Verb, or drive#Verb, particularly in thrusting#Verb, or in thrusting#Verb one thing into another; to stuff#Verb; to crowd#Verb; to fill#Verb to superfluity#Noun; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. 2 To fill with food to satiety#Noun; to stuff. 3 To put hastily#Adverb through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor. 4 study#Verb hard, swot#Verb. 5 To eat#Verb greedily#Adverb, and to satiety; to stuff. 6 To make crude preparation#Noun for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing#Verb or study.

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WordNet
cram

  1. v. 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

  5. [also: cramming, crammed]

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Wikipedia
Cram (game show)

Cram is a game show that aired as an original series for GSN in 2003. The show featured two teams, each composed of two contestants. For 24 hours before taping, the contestants were sequestered in a warehouse, with the intent of staying awake and "cramming" various material such as trivia questions and jokes, which they would then answer on the show while attempting physical stunts in an attempt to stay awake. Graham Elwood was the host and Berglind Icey (referred to simply as "Icey" on the show) was the co-host.

Cram

Cram may refer to:

  • Cram (surname), a surname, and list of notable persons having the surname
  • Cram.com, a website for creating and sharing flashcards
  • Cram (game show), a TV game show that aired on the Game Show Network
  • Cram, a fictional type of bread in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
  • Cramming (education), a slang term for last-minute study
  • Cramming (fraud), adding inappropriate charges to a bill
  • Cram school, a specialized school that trains students to pass entrance exams
  • Cram (game), an impartial mathematical game similar to domineering
  • Cram (software), a flashcard application for Apple devices
  • Cram (tango, dance theatre) a piece premiered in 2012 by collective Kambras

CRAM may refer to:

  • NCR CRAM, Card Random Access Memory, a computer memory technology developed by NCR
  • CRAM, Centro Ricerca Artistica Mezzocorona, Centre for Art Research in Mezzocorona/Kronmetz, Italy
  • Chalcogenide RAM, Chalcogenide random access memory, a phase-change computer memory technology
  • Challenge-response authentication, Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism, a computer security procedure
  • Counter-RAM, Counter-Rockets, Artillery and Mortars, a weapons system
  • CRAM (protein), Cysteine-rich Acidic Trans-membrane protein
  • MS-CRAM, also known as Microsoft Video 1, a codec
  • CRAM diet, the Cereal, Rice, And Milk diet, an alternative to the BRAT_diet
Cram (surname)

Cram is a surname, and may refer to

  • Allen Gilbert Cram, (1886–1947), an American painter
  • Bobby Cram (1939–2007), an English professional footballer.
  • Cleveland Cram, an American CIA station chief and CIA historian
  • Donald J. Cram, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist
  • George F. Cram, a map-maker and publisher
  • George Henry Cram, a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War
  • Ralph Adams Cram, an American architect
  • Steve Cram, a British middle-distance runner
  • Thomas J. Cram, a topographical engineer in the Union Army during the Civil War
Cram (game)

Cram is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper. It is the impartial version of Domineering and the only difference in the rules is that each player may place their dominoes in either orientation, but it results in a very different game. It has been called by many names, including "plugg" by Geoffrey Mott-Smith, and "dots-and-pairs." Cram was popularized by Martin Gardner in Scientific American.

Cram (software)

Cram is an application for Apple's OS X and iOS developed by Patrick Chukwura and Ashli Norton of SimpleLeap Software.

The software is a flashcard application which allows users to prepare for various types of subject matter using flashcards and multiple choice tests. By entering the question and answer of the test in Cram, the application presents the information in test or flashcard format, which then allows the user to study the entered information at any time.

Apart from the core functionality of Cram, other features of the application include the use of images and sound that are integrated on the flashcard and practice tests as they study and test database that allows the user to download and share tests with other users.

Cram also provides functions to study from an iPhone with flashcards and multiple-choice tests.

Cram is available as shareware, which will block itself after creating five tests with five questions each.

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Usage examples of "cram".

Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.

Why did masses of them crammed into convention hotel room parties exude such clouds of antisexual pheromones?

Once out, Apolline had demanded to take a tour of the city, and had followed her nose to the busiest thoroughfare she could find, its pavements crammed with shoppers, children and dead-beats.

He reaches up and drags down hay in hurried armsful and crams it into the rack.

A truck went by but the front bench was filled not just with the driver but three fetching looking girls as well, while the back was crammed with at least six cattle.

Not long after returning to Cala Palace, Prince Conrig had commanded Sir Hale to cram as much martial training as possible into his young protege during the few weeks available to them, even if it left Snudge temporarily lame.

Tables, wardrobes, commodes, mirrors, chairs - the contents of a seven-bedroomed mansion crammed into a three-room shack.

There was an unmade twin bed crammed against the wall and a single nightstand on which rested a phone, an alarm clock, and one framed picture -a Chasidic man standing next to, but not touching, a young girl of about fourteen.

It had been worth every tedious minute of the three years of endless cramming for the law degree that had eased him on to the fast track, one of the first ever graduates to make it to the new accelerated promotion stream in the Derbyshire force.

Thomas could have sung a Te Deum in praise of Saint Sebastian if his mouth had not been crammed with mud, for his rescuer was Father Hobbe, who must have heard the frantic shouting and come run- ning down the alley to investigate.

The ship, crammed with French recruits for the African regiments, had pitched and rolled almost incessantly for thirty-one hours, and Domini and most of the recruits had been ill.

The gallery was crammed with Dedelphi: sail-like ears, leathery skin, round, multi-lidded eyes, all watching a gathering on a proscenium stage.

Snatching up her plastic toiletries kit from the back of the sink, she crammed it down between the etagere and wastebasket.

Asha took the little featherbed that had been crammed onto the window seat in the dormer at the narrow end.

I drizzled honey on a piece of the leathery flatbread and rolled it around a little white cheese, cramming my mouth full while she was busy talking.