Ram vs Goose - What's the difference?
ram | goose |
(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)
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
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(slang) A silly person
* {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430
, passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
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(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
To stimulate, to spur.
(slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
English nouns with irregular plurals
As a proper noun ram
is rome.As a noun goose is
any of various grazing waterfowl of the family anatidae, bigger than a duck.As a verb goose is
(slang) to sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.ram
English
Acronym
(Acronym) (head) (wikipedia RAM)Derived terms
* NVRAM * SRAM * DRAM * SDRAM * FRAM * MRAMSee also
* flash memory * bubble memory * core memory * WORMAnagrams
* * * *goose
English
Noun
(geese)- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
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- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .