Dictionary Definition

cram

1 crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, wad]

2 put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"

3 study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]

4 prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam [also: cramming, crammed]

User Contributed Dictionary

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.

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

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.
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another

To fill with food to satiety; to stuff

To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study

To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff

To make crude preparation for a special occasion

Cram may refer to:

Cram (surname), a surname, and list of notable persons having the surname, including Donald J. Cram, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Cram (game show), a TV game show that aired on the Game Show Network
Cram (Middle-earth), a fictional type of bread in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
Cramming (memorization), a slang term for last-minute study
Cram school, a specialized school that train to pass entrance exams
NCR CRAM, Card Random Access Memory
Phase-change memory, or Chalcogenide RAM
Challenge-response authentication mechanism
CRAM (protein), Cysteine-rich Acidic Trans-membrane Protein
CRAM, Cognitive Ressource Availability Manager

cram in German: Cram

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