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Bam vs Ram - What's the difference?

bam | ram |

As a noun bam

is tree.

As a proper noun ram is

rome.

bam

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
    • The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam ! It nearly scared me to death.
  • Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
    • She said she dumped him. Now — bam ! — they're back together.

    Synonyms

    * bang * blam * pow * wham

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, slang) ned, bampot.
  • (dated) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
    • (Garrick)I’ll break a lamp, bully a con stable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
    David Garrick, The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93, http://www.questia.com/read/59320440.
  • * Prof. Wilson
    • To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams .

    Verb

  • To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
    • (Foote)
  • (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

    • Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

    * English onomatopoeias ----

    ram

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head) (wikipedia RAM)
  • (electronics, computing) random access memory
  • (project management) responsibility assignment matrix
  • (risk management) reliability availability maintainability
  • (military) radar-absorbent material, a material absorbant to radar
  • (Royal Academy of Music)

    • Derived terms

    * NVRAM * SRAM * DRAM * SDRAM * FRAM * MRAM

    Related terms

    * ROM

    See also

    * flash memory * bubble memory * core memory * WORM

    Anagrams

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