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vamp
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /væmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Etymology 1
From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. [from c. 1225]
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- Synonym: patch
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. [from c. 1789]
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
Translations
Verb
vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
Derived terms
- new-vamp, revamp
- vamp up
- vamper
Etymology 2
Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. [from c. 1915]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vamp
- (informal) A vampire.
Derived terms
- vampish
Translations
Verb
vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)
- (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
Translations
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; possibly related to vamp (etymology 1, above): see the 2008 quotation.
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
Translations
References
Further reading
- vamp (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English vamp.
Noun
vamp f (invariable)
- vamp (flirtatious woman)
Spanish
Noun
vamp m or f (plural vamps)
- vamp
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ramp
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)
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron)
- (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.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- A speed bump. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete) A leap or bound.
- 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)
- 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,
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 196, [1]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
- (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.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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) < qp 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.
- 2007, Sean Meyn, Control Techniques for Complex Networks (page 285)
- 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)
- An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
- (Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman.
- (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)
- disaster, catastrophe
- Mensen wensen geluk en welvaart en verafschuwen ongeluk en rampen
- People wish happiness and prosperity and abhor mishap and disasters
- Mensen wensen geluk en welvaart en verafschuwen ongeluk en rampen
- 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)
- a ramp
- 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)
- (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
- indefinite accusative singular of rampur
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”).
Noun
ramp m
- epilepsy, (human) cramp
- bird claw disease, bird cramp
- disaster, misfortune
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: ramp
Further reading
- “ramp”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
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