I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
battering ram
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
home
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And it is a point that needs to be rammed home to directors even more firmly than to auditors.
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The police now hope to broadcast their video nationally to ram home the dangers of driving fast in fog.
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Campbell was on the spot to gratefully ram home the rebound.
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Paley rammed home his argument by multiplying up his examples.
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Once again, it is ramming home the importance of gradual, step-by-step change.
■ NOUN
car
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Minutes later it rammed a police car which tried to stop it and headed up the M5.
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At one stage he turned the car round and rammed a following police car, nudging it aside.
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Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads.
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Car rammed: A policeman was injured last night when burglars rammed a panda car.
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A green Renault 18, it has just rammed a car at the junction with A253.
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In the latest raid, thieves used his van to ram a police car .
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A GLUE-SNIFFER was jailed yesterday for ramming a police car while high.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
force/ram/shove sth down sb's throat
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But my brokers were complaining that I was shoving them down their throats .
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His teeth were even and white, and Bernice wanted to ram them down his throat .
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Jess felt like ramming it down his throat .
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The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats .
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Torrents of lava would not tumble out to force fire down his throat , torch his tongue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Construction workers had to spend the night ramming iron girders into place to support the building.
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Hancock tried to ram the police car.
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He rammed a clip of bullets into the gun.
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She rammed the papers into her briefcase.
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The driver lost control and rammed into a car waiting at a stoplight.
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The ship had been rammed by a submarine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another rammed a barrier wall and broke its neck.
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Enthusiasts can overcome this by ramming the cartridge into its socket while the drive is running.
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I kept thinking that they would all ram me.
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Last week, the opposition rammed the 14 percent gains tax plan through parliament while few members were in the chamber.
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Ludo and I turn our collars up against the chill April evening, and ram our hands in our coat pockets.
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Napoleon, far from manoeuvring about the Duke's right flank, had rammed his troops into the seam between the allied armies.
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Sharpe reloaded the rifle, this time ramming the bullet hard down against the charge, then released the horse.
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The Republicans are trying to ram through a judgment in the Gingrich case.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
battering
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I heard the hiss of arrows and the crashing of some makeshift battering ram buckling the beams of the iron-studded gates.
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He is a powerhouse, a battering ram , but also has touch and an eye for goal.
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Nizan is always willing to oblige with the battering ram technique, if required.
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At two stores, cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters.
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In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
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We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door.
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The immigration issue, the National Front's favourite political battering ram , is still there.
hydraulic
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They are pushing upwards because their stalks function as vertical hydraulic rams .
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Watertightness is achieved by thrust from hydraulic rams acting on the other end of the tank.
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Arches converge above boat shaped hollow concrete piers close to each riverbank and concealing hydraulic rams that perform the clever bit.
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Sussex gardens offer a glimpse of sheep, while Norfolk gardens go one better with hydraulic rams !
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At each end of the tanks are portcullis gates, which are opened and closed by hydraulic rams .
■ NOUN
raid
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Police had given chase after foiling an attempted ram raid in Marlborough.
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Male speaker We're bound to consider that it was to be used in a ram raid offence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her prow, a cast-iron projection weighing 1, 500 pounds, was intended for use as a ram .
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His animal was the ram and he is depicted as a ram or a ram-headed man.
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Over the past year he has had eight sheep, one suckle-calf and a ram bitten by adders: the ram died.
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The ram , though strongly built, had its defects.
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There were 810 breeding ewes, ewe lambs, and rams on offer.