Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 7
Ramist (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.
Ramline (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.
Rammel (n.) Refuse matter.
Rammer (n.) 使用夯錘的人；夯錘，裝藥棒 One who, or that which, rams or drives.
Rammer (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.
Rammer (n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
Rammer (n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
Rammish (a.) Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.
Rammishness (n.) The quality of being rammish.
Rammy (a.) Like a ram; rammish.
Ramollescence (n.) A softening or mollifying.
Ramoon (n.) A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.
Ramose (a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.
Ramous (a.) Ramose.
Ramped (imp. & p. p.) of Ramp.
Ramping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramp.
Ramp (v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Ramp (v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
Ramp (v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
Ramp (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
Ramp (n.) A highwayman; a robber.
Ramp (n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.
Ramp (n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
Ramp (n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
Ramp (n.) [ C ] （人造）斜坡，坡道 An artificial slope.
// I pushed the wheelchair up the ramp and into the supermarket.
Ramp (n.) [ C ] (UK) （路面上使車輛放慢速度的）突起減速帶 A raised strip built into a road to make vehicles drive more slowly.
Ramp (n.) [ C ] (US) (UK Slip road) 支路 A short road on which vehicles join or leave a main road.
Rampacious (a.) High-spirited; rampageous.
Rampage (n.) 亂鬧，亂沖，暴跳 Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.
Rampage (v. i.) 發怒，亂鬧，狂暴 To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.
Rampage (n.) Violently angry and destructive behavior [syn: {rampage}, {violent disorder}].
Rampage (v.) Act violently, recklessly, or destructively.
Rampage (v.) [ I ] 橫衝直撞；撒野 To go through an area making a lot of noise and causing damage.
// The demonstrators rampaged through the town, smashing windows and setting fire to cars.
// Several villages were destroyed by rampaging soldiers.
Rampage (n.) [ C or U ] 橫衝直撞；撒野；狂暴行爲 Violent and usually wild behaviour.
// Rioters went on a/the rampage through the city.
Rampageous (a.) 亂鬧的，粗暴的，狂暴的 Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.
Rampageous (a.) Violent; unruly; boisterous.
Rampallian (n.) A mean wretch.
Rampancy (n.) The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.
Rampant (v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.
Rampant (v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
Rampant (v.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
Rampantly (adv.) In a rampant manner.
Rampart (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
Rampart (n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
Ramparted (imp. & p. p.) of Rampart.
Ramparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rampart.
Rampart (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Rampe (n.) The cuckoopint.
Rampier (n.) See Rampart.
Rampion (n.) A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.
Rampire (n.) A rampart.
Rampire (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.
Rampler (n.) A rambler.
Rampler (a.) Roving; rambling.
Ramrod (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Ramson (n.) A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.
Ramsted (n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.
Ramulose (a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.
Ramulous (a.) Ramulose.
Ramuli (n. pl. ) of Ramulus.
Ramulus (n.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
Rami (n. pl. ) of Ramus.
Ramus (n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.
Ramuscule (n.) A small ramus, or branch.
Ran () imp. of Run.
Ran (n.) Open robbery.
Ran (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Rana (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.
Ranal (a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.
Rance (n.) A prop or shore.
Rance (n.) A round between the legs of a chair.
Rancescent (a.) Becoming rancid or sour.
Ranch (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
Ranch (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
Rancheros (n. pl. ) of Ranchero.
Ranchero (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
Ranchero (n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.
Ranchmen (n. pl. ) of Ranchman.
Ranchman (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
Ranchos (n. pl. ) of Rancho.
Rancho (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
Rancho (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
Rancid (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
Rancidity (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.
Rancidly (adv.) In a rancid manner.
Rancidness (n.) The quality of being rancid.
Rancor (n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
Rancorous (a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
Rancorously (adv.) In a rancorous manner.
Rand (n.) A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Rand (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. --Beau. & Fl.
Rand (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
Rand (n.) [D.] Rim; edge; border. [South Africa]
Rand (n.) The monetary unit of the Union of South Africa.
The Rand, a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about thirty miles long, on which Johannesburg is situated; also, the gold-mining district including this ridge.
Rand (v. i.) To rant; to storm. [Obs.]
I wept, . . . and raved, and randed, and railed. -- J. Webster.
Rand (n.) The basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
Rand (n.) United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) [syn: Rand, Ayn Rand].
Rand (n.) A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese [syn: Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef].
RAND, () Rural Area Network Design
Randall grass () (Bot.) The meadow fescue ({Festuca elatior). See under Grass.
Randan (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. [Prov. Eng.]
Randan (n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
Randing (n.) (Shoemaking) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.
Randing (n.) (Mil.) A kind of basket work used in gabions.
Random (n.) （現只用於at random） 任意行動；隨機過程 [U] Force; violence. [Obs.]
For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force. -- E. Hall.
Random (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
Counsels, when they fly At random, sometimes hit most happily. -- Herrick.
O, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! -- Sir W. Scott.
Random (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball. -- Sir K. Digby.
Random (n.) (Mining) The direction of a rake-vein. -- Raymond.
Random (a.) 胡亂的；隨便的，任意的；（建築材料等）大小不一的，規格不一的；【統】隨機的 Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.
Some random truths he can impart. -- Wordsworth.
So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle to the random. -- H. Spencer.
Random (a.) (Statistics) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from a process of selection from a starting set of items, in which the probability of selecting any one object in the starting set is equal to the probability of selecting any other.
Random (a.) (Construction) of unequal size or shape; made from components of unequal size or shape.
At random, In a manner so that all possible results have an equal probability of occurrence; for processes, each possible result is counted separately although the same type of result may occur more than once.
Random courses (Masonry), Courses of stone of unequal thickness.
Random shot, A shot not directed or aimed toward any particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun much elevated.
Random work (Masonry), Stonework consisting of stones of unequal sizes fitted together, but not in courses nor always with flat beds.
Random (a.) Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements" [ant: nonrandom].
Random (a.) Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition); weird. ?The system's been behaving pretty randomly.?
Random (a.) Assorted; undistinguished. ?Who was at the conference?? ?Just a bunch of random business types.?
Random (a.) (Pejorative) Frivolous; unproductive; undirected. ?He's just a random loser.?
Random (a.) Incoherent or inelegant; poorly chosen; not well organized. ?The program has a random set of misfeatures.? ?That's a random name for that function.?? Well, all the names were chosen pretty randomly.?
Random (a.) In no particular order, though deterministic. ?The I/O channels are in a pool, and when a file is opened one is chosen randomly.?
Random (a.) Arbitrary. ?It generates a random name for the scratch file.?
Random (a.) Gratuitously wrong, i.e., poorly done and for no good apparent reason.
For example, a program that handles file name defaulting in a particularly useless way, or an assembler routine that could easily have been coded using only three registers, but redundantly uses seven for values with non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it without first saving four extra registers. What randomness!
Random (n.) A random hacker; used particularly of high-school students who soak up computer time and generally get in the way.
Random (n.) Anyone who is not a hacker (or, sometimes, anyone not known to the hacker speaking); the noun form of sense 2. ?I went to the talk, but the audience was full of randoms asking bogus questions?.
Random (n.) (Occasional MIT usage) One who lives at Random Hall. See also J. Random, some random X.
Random (n.) [UK] Conversationally, a non sequitur or something similarly out-of-the-blue. As in: ?Stop being so random!? This sense equates to ?hatstand?, taken from the Viz comic character ?Roger Irrelevant - He's completely Hatstand.?
Random, () Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition); weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly."
Random, () Assorted; undistinguished. "Who was at the conference?" "Just a bunch of random business types."
Random, () (Pejorative) Frivolous; unproductive; undirected. "He's just a random loser."
Random, () Incoherent or inelegant; poorly chosen; not well organised. "The program has a random set of misfeatures." "That's a random name for that function." "Well, all the names were chosen pretty randomly."
Random, () In no particular order, though deterministic. "The I/O channels are in a pool, and when a file is opened one is chosen randomly."
Random, () Arbitrary. "It generates a random name for the scratch file."
Random, () Gratuitously wrong, i.e. poorly done and for no good apparent reason. For example, a program that handles file name defaulting in a particularly useless way, or an assembler routine that could easily have been coded using only three registers, but redundantly uses seven for values with non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it without first saving four extra registers. What randomness!
Random, () A random hacker; used particularly of high-school students who soak up computer time and generally get in the way.
Random, () Anyone who is not a hacker (or, sometimes, anyone not known to the hacker speaking). "I went to the talk, but the audience was full of randoms asking bogus questions."
Random, () (Occasional MIT usage) One who lives at Random Hall. See also J. Random, some random X. [{Jargon File] (1995-12-05)
Randomize (v. i. & v. t.)（使）作任意排列；【數】（使）隨機化；隨機選擇，隨機取樣 Make (a set of items, people, etc.) unpredictable, unsystematic, or random in order or arrangement.
‘You can randomize the ingredients with the tap of a button.’
Randomly (adv.) 任意地；隨便地；胡亂地 In a random manner.
Randomly (adv.) In a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way].
Randon (n.) Random. [Obs.] -- Spenser.