Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - cram
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Cram
cram
~ v crammed, cramming 1 T always + adv/prep to force something into a small space (cram sth into/onto/down etc) (Jessica crammed her clothes into the bag.) 2 cram into sth if people cram into a place, they fill it (Thousands of people crammed into the stadium to see the final game.) 3 a) to prepare yourself for an examination by learning a lot of information very quickly; swot2 BrE (I've been cramming hard all week.) + for (He'd crammed for the test until four in the morning.) b) BrE to help someone prepare for an examination by cramming (The college is cramming the students hard for the summer exams.)
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(crams, cramming, crammed) 1. If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket... I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers... She crammed her mouth with caviar. = stuff VERB: V n prep/adv, V n full of n, V n with n 2. If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. We crammed into my car and set off... Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried. = pack VERB: V prep, V n 3. If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. She was cramming for her Economics exam... VERB: V for n • cramming It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont’s bar exam. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. biographical name Donald James 1919-2001 American chemist II. biographical name Ralph Adams 1863-1942 American architect & author CRAM I. verb (~med; ~ming) Etymology: Middle English ~men, from Old English ~mian; akin to Old Norse kremja to squeeze Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to pack tight ; jam ~ a suitcase with clothes a novel ~med with surprises 2. a. to fill with food to satiety ; stuff b. to eat voraciously ; bolt the child ~s her food 3. to thrust in or as if in a rough or forceful manner ~med the letters into his pocket 4. to prepare hastily for an examination ~ the students for the test intransitive verb 1. to eat greedily or to satiety ; stuff 2. to study a subject intensively especially for an imminent examination • ~mer noun II. noun Date: 1810 1. a compressed multitude or crowd ; crush 2. last-minute study especially for an examination ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. (crammed, cramming) 1 tr. a fill to bursting; stuff (the room was crammed). b (foll. by in, into) force (a thing) into (cram the sandwiches into the bag). 2 tr. & intr. prepare for an examination by intensive study. 3 tr. (often foll. by with) feed (poultry etc.) to excess. 4 tr. & intr. colloq. eat greedily. Phrases and idioms cram-full as full as possible. cram in push in to bursting point (crammed in another five minutes' work). Etymology: OE crammian f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. разг. толкотня, давка 2. разг. нахватанные знания; зубрежка 3. разг. репетитор, натаскивающий к экзамену 4. разг. краткострочные курсы для подготовки к сдаче экзаменов 5. разг. краткий справочник 6. сл. ложь, обман to tell a cram —- соврать 7. диал. пища для откорма животных и птиц 8. наполнять, переполнять, набивать битком to cram food into one's mouth, to cram up one's mouth with food —- набить полный рот еды the hall is crammed —- зал набит до отказа a book crammed with quotations —- книга, полная цитат they crammed our ears with news —- они засыпали нас новостями 9. (into) впихивать, втискивать to cram clothes into a trunk —- впихнуть одежду в сундук to cram people into a railway carriage —- набивать людей в железнодорожный вагон 10. накормить досыта; перекормить; пичкать; наедаться; жадно есть to cram down one's lunch —- заглотать завтрак 11. откармливать 12. разг. натаскивать (к экзамену) to cram a pupil for an examination —- натаскивать ученика к экзамену 13. наспех зазубривать to cram history —- вызубрить историю 14. сл. лгать you are cram ming —- вы врете, вы завираетесь Id: to cram smth. down smb.'s throat —- навязывать кому-л. (свое мнение и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) давка, толкотня 2) нахватанные знания 3) зубрежка 4) coll. обман, мистификация 2. v. 1) впихивать, втискивать (into) Seven people crammed into the small car. I shall have to cram all my clothes into this small case. 2) переполнять (with) the theatre was crammed - театр был набит битком The room was crammed with people wanting to buy the furniture. 3) пичкать, откармливать 4) наедаться 5) вбивать в голову; втолковывать; натаскивать к экзамену 6) наспех зазубривать (часто cram up) Although there are no lessons this week, the students are all cramming for next weeks tests. 7) coll. лгать ...Англо-русский словарь
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softw. abbr. Cram Really Ain't Mathematica sec. abbr. Challenge Response Authorization Mechanism sec. abbr. Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism gen. bus. abbr. Cultivating Relationships Among Managers ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- O.E. crammian "press something into something else," from P.Gmc. base *kram-/*krem-. Meaning "study intensely for an exam" is British student slang first recorded 1803. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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