Cram
11Cram — [kræm], Donald James, amerikanischer Chemiker, * Chester (Vermont) 22. 4. 1919, ✝Palm Desert (Calif.) 17. 6. 2001; seit 1950 Professor an der University of California in Los Angeles. Seine Forschungen betrafen v. a. die zu Beginn der 60er Jahre …
12Cram — Cram, n. 1. The act of cramming. [1913 Webster] 2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. [1913… …
13Cram — Cram, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. [1913 Webster] Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive… …
14cram up — USA cram up, Also known as crammed up. The mechanism by which junior creditors can force a plan of reorganization on a dissenting class of senior creditors. For example, this can happen if junior creditors successfully reinstate the debt held by… …
15cram — [v1] fill to overflowing; compress charge, chock, choke, compact, crowd, crush, devour, drive, force, gobble, gorge, guzzle, heap, ingurgitate, jam, jam pack*, load, overcrowd, overeat, overfill, pack, pack ‘em in*, pack in, pack it in*, pack… …
16cram — [kram] vt. crammed, cramming [ME crammen < OE crammian, to squeeze in, stuff; akin to MHG krammen, grip with claws < IE * grem , to press, compress (> L gremium, lap, bosom) < base * ger , to hold, seize] 1. to fill (a space) beyond… …
17cram|oi|sy — or cram|oi|sie «KRAM oy zee, uh », adjective, noun. Archaic. –adj. crimson. –n. crimson cloth. ╂[< Old French crameisi or Italian chermesi < Arabic qirmāzi < qirmiz the kermes insect. Compare etym. under carmine (Cf. ↑carmine), crimson… …
18Cram. — Cram., bei Tiernamen Abkürzung für Pieter Cramer, holländ. Entomolog; schrieb: »De uitlandsche Kapellen, Papillons exotiques« (Amsterd. 1779–82, 4 Bde. mit 400 Tafeln; Supplement von Stoll, mit 42 Tafeln, 1787–91) …
19Cram — Donald James …
20cram — index constrict (compress), impact, load, overload Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
