Tramp vs Cramp - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between tramp and cramp

is that tramp is to travel or wander through while cramp is to restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

As nouns the difference between tramp and cramp

is that tramp is (pejorative) a homeless person, a vagabond while cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.

As verbs the difference between tramp and cramp

is that tramp is to walk with heavy footsteps while cramp is (of a muscle) to contract painfully and uncontrollably.

tramp

English

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp .

(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

"I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp ."

"Claudia is such a tramp ; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."

Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

* 1888 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :

I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp -ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.

* 1919 , Charles Fort, :

Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.

* 1924 , George Sutherland, :

Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.

* 1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :

“Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.

(Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.

* 1968 , John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois , page 75:

The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.

* 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet, page 734:

Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you?re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp' up ' Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.

* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day , page 186:

The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.

, especially a very small one.

Synonyms

* (homeless person) bum, hobo, vagabond ** See also * (disreputable woman) See also * (type of ship) see * (long walk) bushwalk, hike, ramble, trek

Derived terms

* tramp ant * tramp stamp

Verb

(en verb)
To walk with heavy footsteps.

To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.

To hitchhike

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

To travel or wander through.

to tramp the country

(Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

(Jamieson)

Derived terms

* trample * tromp

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cramp
English
(wikipedia cramp)
Noun
(en noun)
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.

* Sir T. More

The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

* L'Estrange

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

* Cowper

crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear

A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

Derived terms
* brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's cramp
Verb
(en verb)
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.

To prohibit movement or expression.

You're cramping my style.

* Layard

The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.

To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.

* Ford

when the gout cramps my joints

To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.

(by extension) To bind together; to unite.

* Burke

The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.

To form on a cramp.

to cramp boot legs

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