different between gangway vs ramp

English

Etymology

From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangwe? (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang +? way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).

Noun

gangway (plural gangways)

1. A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
2. An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
3. A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
4. (rare, obsolete outside dialects) A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
5. (Britain) An aisle.
6. (nautical) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
7. (nautical) A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded.
8. (agricultural) An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
9. (Chicago) The narrow space between two buildings or houses, used to access the backyard/alleyway from the front.
10. A passageway through a passenger car

Synonyms

• (narrow space between two buildings): See Thesaurus:alley

Hyponyms

• (enclosed corridor between an airport and plane): See jet bridge

Related terms

• gangplank
• gangboard

Translations

Verb

gangway (third-person singular simple present gangways, present participle gangwaying, simple past and past participle gangwayed)

1. To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.

Interjection

gangway

1. (to a crowd) Make way! Clear a path!
   • 1934, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, p 157:

     And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *ramp?n, *hramp?n (“to contract oneself”), akin to Old English hrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

1. An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
2. A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
3. (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
4. (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron)
5. (aviation) 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.
6. (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
7. A speed bump. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (obsolete) A leap or bound.
9. A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.

Derived terms

• boat ramp
• rampie

Translations

Verb

ramp (third-person singular simple present ramps, present participle ramping, simple past and past participle ramped)

1. To behave violently; to rage.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 196, [1]

     Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To climb, like a plant; to creep up.

   • With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, […] and so ramping upon trees, […] they mount up to a great height.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
   • 2007, Sean Meyn, Control Techniques for Complex Networks (page 285)

     If Q(t) < q^p then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.

   • 2011, Sheng Liu, Yong Liu, Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly

     The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.

6. To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.

Derived terms

• ramper
• ramp up

Related terms

• rampage
• rampant

Translations

Etymology 2

See ramson.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

1. An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
2. (Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman.
3. (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.

Synonyms

• (Allium tricoccum): ramps, rams, ramson, ramsons, wild leek

Translations

See also

• buckram

Further reading

• Allium tricoccum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium tricoccum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Allium tricoccum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• ramp at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

• MRAP, parm, pram

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ramp (“misfortune”). Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”). In the 19th century, the grammatical gender of the word was a matter of debate. It was finally standardized as feminine, departing from its historical masculine gender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?mp/
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

1. disaster, catastrophe

   • Mensen wensen geluk en welvaart en verafschuwen ongeluk en rampen

     People wish happiness and prosperity and abhor mishap and disasters

2. an accident

Synonyms

• catastrofe
• ongeluk

Derived terms

• kernramp
• olieramp
• rampspoed

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *ramp?n, *hramp?n (“to contract oneself”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?mp/
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

1. a ramp
2. a driveway

Synonyms

• (ramp): helling
• (driveway): oprit

Derived terms

• oprijramp

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English ramp, from French rampe.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /r?mp/, [?æmp]
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp m (plural ramps, diminutive rampje n)

1. (skating) A construction to do skating tricks, usually in the form of one half of a pipe, a half-pipe.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am?p

Noun

ramp

1. indefinite accusative singular of rampur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”).

Noun

ramp m

1. epilepsy, (human) cramp
2. bird claw disease, bird cramp
3. disaster, misfortune

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: ramp

Further reading

• “ramp”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000