Meaning

18 senses
  1. An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.

    Rampe, Auffahrt

    съездsʺjezd, склонsklon, па́ндусpándus

    па́ндусpándus

    an inclined surface connecting two levels

  2. (Canada, US)An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.

  3. A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.

  4. A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.

    Gangway, Rampe

    трапtrap

    a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft

  5. A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.

    He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.

  6. A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).

  7. A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.

  8. A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.

  9. A scale of values.

  10. A speed bump.

  11. (slang)An act of violent robbery.

  12. (slang)A deliberate swindle or fraud.

Examples

30 sentences
  1. They have paved the on-ramp.

    ruОни замостили въезд на шоссе. — odexed

    deSie haben die Auffahrt gepflastert. — Yorwba

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  2. I'm near the on ramp to 25 north.

  3. Tom's car stalled going up the ramp.

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  4. They haven’t yet ramped them up into production.

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  5. There was a tiny ramp overlooking the ocean.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
inclined surface:
Русский
By meaning 3
inclined surface:
aviation: mobile staircase:
American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
inclined surface:
aviation: mobile staircase:

Origin

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp.

]See ramson.

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Forms

plural: ramps
Singularramp
Pluralramps

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
road that connects freeway to surface street or other freeway:slip road
Allium tricoccum:ramsramsonramsonswild leekramps
Close in meaning

Word family

26 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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