Cram vs Curtail - What's the difference?
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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.
To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to ; to stuff.
To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
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To , and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude or study.
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
Cram is a related term of curtail.
As nouns the difference between cram and curtail
is that cram is the act of cramming while curtail is (architecture) a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.As verbs the difference between cram and curtail
is that cram is to ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people while curtail is (obsolete) to cut short the tail of an animal.cram
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(cramm)Derived terms
* cram schoolAnagrams
* *curtail
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(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.
