[
UK
/ɹˈæmp/
]
[ US /ˈɹæmp/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæmp/ ]
VERB
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
-
be rampant
the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction -
creep up -- used especially of plants
The roses ramped over the wall -
furnish with a ramp
The ramped auditorium - behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
NOUN
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
How To Use ramp In A Sentence
- Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life. Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
- Rampant Victoriana tends to be a bit too fussy for me, but there were some lovely bits of jet and marcasite jewelry that called my name. Runaway, Jersey-style
- The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
- Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
- These committees will be looking at infrastructure security issues as well, including marinas, boat ramps, docks, anchorages and major marine or special events.
- My dad, despite his rampant hypochondria, had always been healthy.
- He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
- Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
- ‘There were many times when I felt faint at matches because of menstrual cramps,’ Susan says.
- Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation