Cramér-von : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Cramér-von	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Cramér-von
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cram v crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" Synonym(s): jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase" study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" Synonym(s): cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cram \Cram\, n. 1. The act of cramming. 2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.] 3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cram \Cram\ (kr[acr]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[acr]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. {Cramp}.] 1. 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. Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift. 2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. --Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. --Shak. 3. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cram \Cram\, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. --Milton. 2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]