Cram
To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
The act of cramming.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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Cram Quotations
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning
The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast.
Michael Chertoff
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
Brendan Gill
Cram Translations
cram in Latin is refercio
cram in Norwegian is stappe, pugge
cram in Swedish is stoppa, packa
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