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Teem vs Cram - What's the difference?

teem | cram |

As verbs the difference between teem and cram

is that teem is to be stocked to overflowing while cram is to press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

As a noun cram is

the act of cramming.

teem

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , whence also team.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be stocked to overflowing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
  • To be prolific; to abound.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
  • To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To empty.
  • * 1913 ,
  • *:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
  • *:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
  • To pour (especially with rain)
  • To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
  • Etymology 3

    See tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
  • Anagrams

    * meet * mete ----

    cram

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (cramm)
  • 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.
  • .
  • To , and to satiety; to stuff.
  • To make crude or study.
  • Derived terms

    * cram school

    Anagrams

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