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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English leke, leek, lek, from Old English l?ac (“a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic”), from Proto-Germanic *lauk? *laukaz (“leek, onion”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Dutch look (“garlic, leek”), Low German look, Look, German Lauch (“leek, allium”), Danish løg (“onion”), Swedish lök (“onion”), Icelandic laukur (“onion, leek, garlic”). See garlic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?k, IPA^(key): /li?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k
• Homophone: leak

Noun

leek (plural leeks)

1. The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
2. Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

Synonyms

• (Allium ampeloprasum): broadleaf wild leek, the Cambrian symbol (literary), garden leek, scallion (US, Scotland)

Derived terms

• Asian leek (Allium fistulosum)
• broadleaf wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum, Allium atroviolaceum)
• narrowleaf wild leek (Allium tricoccum var. burdickii)
• garden leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum)
• houseleek (Sempervivum)
• leek moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella)
• leek orchid (Prasophyllum spp.)
• leek rust (Puccinia allii)
• lily leek (Allium moly)
• narrowleaf wild leek (Allium tricoccum var. burdickii)
• Persian leek (Allium ampeloprasum cultivar)
• sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum)
• threecorner leek (Allium triquetrum)

Translations

See also

• garlic
• leak
• Thrips tabaci

Further reading

• leek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium ampeloprasum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• leek at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

• Kele, elke, keel, lekë

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?k
• IPA^(key): /le?k/

Etymology 1

From Latin l?icus (“layman, laic”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (laïkós, “of the people”), from ???? (laós, “the people”).

Noun

leek m (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. layman, non-clergyman
2. layman, non-expert, amateur

Antonyms

• clericus, geestelijke
• deskundige, expert, professional

Derived terms

• lekenapostolaat
• lekenpersoneel
• lekenrechter
• lekenstand

Adjective

leek (comparative leker, superlative leekst)

1. (obsolete) lay, worldly, secular, profane

Inflection

Etymology 2

Cognate with laak, Latin lacus, English lake.

Noun

leek ? (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. small body of water, like a pool; gave rise to place names

Etymology 3

Local dialect in the Dutch region Betuwe, from Latin lapathum (“kind of sorrel”).

Noun

leek ? (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. (botany) the plant Rumex crispus
2. (by extension) related plants of that genus: sorrel, dock

Derived terms

• koeleek

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

leek

1. singular past indicative of lijken

Verb

leek

1. first-person singular present indicative of leken
2. imperative of leken

Anagrams

• keel, leke

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *leekki, cognate to Finnish liekki and Karelian liekki. Possibly the same root as in Votic lõõkkua (“to move, to sway”) and Finnish liekkua.

Noun

leek (genitive leegi, partitive leeki)

1. blaze, flame, fire

Declension

Derived terms

• leegiheitja

Middle English

Noun

leek

1. Alternative form of leke