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Ram vs Ibis - What's the difference?

ram | ibis |

As nouns the difference between ram and ibis

is that ram is a male sheep while ibis is any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.

As an acronym RAM

is random access memory.

As a verb ram

is to intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.

As a proper noun Ram

is the constellation Aries.

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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    ibis

    English

    (wikipedia ibis)

    Noun

  • Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
  • *
    • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

    Derived terms

    * Australian white ibis * sacred ibis * (straw-necked ibis)