ramp
/ɹæmp/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
Meaning
noun
An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
noun
A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
noun
A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
noun
A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
Example Sentences
- "He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total."
- "The RGB model uses the color component of light sources in order to produce more realistic and pleasant results. Internal color representations are always based on a palette-based color ramp."
- "We have created a volume ramp. Play the section in the Timeline and listen to the volume change."
- "We are surely not meant to think of the sense of “ramp” (from 1819) that means a deliberate swindle or fraud, such as announcing that you have done more tests than you actually have because a third were just posted out."
- "Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,"
- "In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French