definición y significado de cram

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cram (v. trans.)

1.prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

2.study intensively, as before an exam"I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

3.crowd or pack to capacity"the theater was jampacked"

4.put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled"cram books into the suitcase"

cram (v.)

1.put or thrust suddenly and forcefully"pop the pizza into the microwave oven" "He popped the petit-four into his mouth"

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Merriam Webster

CramCram (krăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krămd); 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.

CramCram, 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.]

CramCram, 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.

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Cram

Look up cram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cram may refer to:

Cram (surname), a surname, and list of notable persons having the surname
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 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

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