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. [R.]
Ramoon (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Ramose (a.) Having branches [syn: {branched}, {branching}, {ramose}, {ramous}, {ramate}].
Ramous (a.) Ramose.
Ramous (a.) Having branches [syn: {branched}, {branching}, {ramose}, {ramous}, {ramate}].
Ramp (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
The bold Ascalonite Fled from his lion ramp. -- Milton.
Ramp (n.) A highwayman; a robber. [Prov. Eng.]
Ramp (n.) A romping woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] -- Lyly.
Ramp (n.) (Arch.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
Ramp (n.) (Arch.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
Ramp (n.) (Fort.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
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.
Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp. -- Spenser.
Ramp (v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, . . . and so ramping upon trees, they mount up to a great height. -- Ray.
Ramp (n.) An inclined surface connecting two levels [syn: {ramp}, {incline}].
Ramp (n.) North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers [syn: {ramp}, {wild leek}, {Allium tricoccum}].
Ramp (n.) A movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft.
Ramp (v.) Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: {ramp}, {rage}, {storm}].
Ramp (v.) Furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium."
Ramp (v.) Be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction."
Ramp (v.) Creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall."
Ramp (v.) Stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
RAMP, () Remote Access Maintenance Protocol.
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.
Rampantly (adv.) In an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here" [syn: {rampantly}, {wild}].
Rampart (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. -- Coleridge.
{Rampart gun} (Fort.), A cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.
Rampart (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
Rampart (n.) (Fort.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. -- Mahan.
Syn: Bulwark; fence; security; guard.
Usage: {Rampart}, {Bulwark}. These words were formerly interchanged; but in modern usage a distinction has sprung up between them. The rampart of a fortified place is the enceinte or entire main embankment or wall which surrounds it. The term bulwark is now applied to peculiarly strong outworks which project for the defense of the rampart, or main work. A single bastion is a bulwark. In using these words figuratively, rampart is properly applied to that which protects by walling out; bulwark to that which stands in the forefront of danger, to meet and repel it. Hence, we speak of a distinguished individual as the bulwark, not the rampart, of the state. This distinction, however, is often disregarded.
Rampart (n.) An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn: {rampart}, {bulwark}, {wall}].
Rampart, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 45
Housing Units (2000): 46
Land area (2000): 168.793819 sq. miles (437.173965 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 168.793819 sq. miles (437.173965 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64820
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 65.507350 N, 150.148496 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99767
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rampart, AK
Rampart
Ramparted (imp. & p. p.) of Rampart.
Ramparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rampart.
Rampe (n.) (Bot.) The cuckoopint.
Rampier (n.) See Rampart. [Obs.]
Rampion (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called {ramps}.
Note: The name is sometimes given to plants of the genus {Phyteuma}, herbs of the Bellflower family, and to the American evening primrose ({[OE]nothera biennis}), which has run wild in some parts of Europe.
Rampion (n.) Bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad [syn: {rampion}, {rampion bellflower}, {Campanula rapunculus}].
Rampire (n.) A rampart. [Archaic]
The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. -- Dryden.
Rampire (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. [Archaic] -- Chapman. "Rampired walls of gold." -- R. Browning.
Rampler (n.) A rambler.
Rampler (a.) Roving; rambling. [Scot.]
Ramrod (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Ramrod (n.) A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.
Ramrod (n.) A harshly demanding overseer.
Ramrod (n.) A rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm.
Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. -- Thackeray.
Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]
Ramshackle (a.) In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken- down}, {derelict}, {dilapidated}, {ramshackle}, {tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}].
Ramshackle (a.) Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
Ramson (n.) (Bot.) A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also {buckram}.
Ramsted (n.) (Bot.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.
Compare: Toadflax
Toadflax (n.) (Bot.) An herb ({Linaria vulgaris}) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also {butter and eggs}, {flaxweed}, and {ramsted}.
Toadflax (n.) Common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America [syn: {toadflax}, {butter-and-eggs}, {wild snapdragon}, {devil's flax}, {Linaria vulgaris}].
Ramuli (n.) plural of ramulus.
Ramulus (n.; pl. {Ramuli}) (Zool.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
Ramulose (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.
Ramulous (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Ramulose.
Ramuli (n. pl. ) of Ramulus.
Ramulus (n.) (Zool.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
Rami (n. pl. ) of Ramus.
Ramus (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.
Ramus (n.) The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
Ramuscule (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A small ramus, or branch.
Ran () imp. of {Run}.
Ran (n.) Open robbery. [Obs.] -- Lambarde.
Ran (n.) (Naut.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Compare: RANK
RANK. () The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
RANK. () It is a maxim, that officers of, an inferior rank are bound to obey all the lawful commands of their superiors, and are justified for such obedience.
Rana (n.) (Zool.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.
Rana (n.) Type genus of the Ranidae [syn: {Rana}, {genus Rana}].
Ranal (a.) (Bot.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.
{Ranal alliance} (Bot.), A name proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceae, Magnoliaceae, Papaveraceae, and others related to them.
Rance (n.) A prop or shore. [Scot.]
Rance (n.) A round between the legs of a chair; also called a {spreader}.
Rancescent (a.) Becoming rancid or sour.
Ranch (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion. [R.] -- Dryden. "Hasting to raunch the arrow out." -- Spenser.
Ranch (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]
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. [Mexico & California] -- Bartlett.
Rancid (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
Rancid (a.) (Used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon."
Rancid (a.) Smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: {sour}, {rancid}].
Rancidity (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. --.Ure.
Rancidity (n.) The state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking 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.