cram
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
But you still need to check in with the Arch Linux community now and then to make sure that none of their crazy shit is going to be crammed down your throat the next update.
- 2.
(transitive)To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
The boy crammed himself with cake
- 3.
(transitive)To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
- 4.
(intransitive)To study hard; to swot.
- 5.
(intransitive)To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
- 6.
(British, dated, intransitive, slang)(intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- 7.
(British, dated, slang, transitive)(transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- 2.
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Information hastily memorized.
a cram from an examination
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- 4.
(British, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)(dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
Đồng nghĩa: alternative fact, anti-fact, invention, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chin, clanker, contradiction, cram, disinformation, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fib, flam, goof, hoax, hummer, inveracity, inverity, jive, lie, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, mendacity, misinformation, mistruth, nonsense, nontruth, pile of crap, pile of shit, pork pie, porker, porky, prevarication, red flag, rubbish, story, swack-up, tall tale, terminological inexactitude, untruism, untruth, whopper, wisker, yanker, yed
- 5.
(uncountable)A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
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From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (to cram; stuff), from *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (to stuff), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to assemble; collect; gather). Compare crimman, kremja.