Pour vs Ramp - What's the difference?
pour | ramp |
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it.
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
* The Bible, 1 i. 15.
* The Bible, vii. 8
* (William Shakespeare)
* (John Milton)
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, title= To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
* A. Pope
To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.
* Gay
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, title= The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
* 2003 , John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
(aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
(aviation) A place where an aircraft parks, next to a terminal, for loading and unloading (see also apron)
(skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
A speed bump
To behave violently; to rage.
To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
* Spenser
To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
* Ray
To stand in a rampant position. (rfex)
To change value, often at a steady rate
* 2007 , Sean Meyn, Control Techniques for Complex Networks (page 285)
* 2011 , Sheng Liu, Yong Liu, Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly
An American plant, , related to the onion; a wild leek.
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(Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person.
As nouns the difference between pour and ramp
is that pour is fear while ramp is an inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline or ramp can be an american plant, , related to the onion; a wild leek.As a verb ramp is
to behave violently; to rage.pour
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).Verb
(en verb)- Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.
- Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
- London doth pour out her citizens!
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
- Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
- In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
Arsenal 1-1 Leeds, passage=In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort}}
Synonyms
* (pour a drink) shink, skinkDerived terms
* pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart outNoun
(en noun)- Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.
- A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----ramp
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rampe, back-formation of (etyl) ramper, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* boat rampVerb
(en verb)- Their bridles they would champ, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp .
- With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, and so ramping upon trees, they mount up to a great height.
- If Q(t)'' < ''qp'' then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that ''Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.
- The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.