ramp
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
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Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
— A ramp is a potently flavored wild scallion, a vegetable with staying power.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
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A promiscuous man or woman.
— And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]
- A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
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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.
— He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.
- A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- 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.
- A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
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A scale of values.
— 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.
- A speed bump.
- An act of violent robbery.
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A deliberate swindle or fraud.
— 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.
- A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A leap or bound.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
动词 v.
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To behave violently; to rage.
— Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,
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To swindle or rob violently.
— In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.
- To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
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To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
— Their bridles they would champe, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely rampe.
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To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
— Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]
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To stand in a rampant position.
— And that lyon gaped wyde and came vpon hym raumppynge to haue slayne hym.And that lion gaped wide and came upon him ramping to have slain him.
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To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
— If Q(t)lt;qᵖ then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
词汇关系
衍生词
banker's ramp
boat ramp
exit ramp
ghost ramp
jump ramp
miniramp
moving ramp
off-ramp
onramp
on-ramp
parking ramp
ramp ceremony
rampie
rampless
ramplike
rampman
ramp meter
rampspeed
ramp travel index
ramp-up
rampway
runaway truck ramp
ski ramp nose
ski-ramp nose
spine ramp
vert ramp
wheelchair ramp
deramp
rampable
ramp along
ramper
ramp up
词源
词源 1
From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp.
Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
词源 2
]See ramson.
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