Decrease and Ram

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

ram

The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible.
- synonyms: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, read/write memory
Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries.
- synonyms: Aries
The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19.
- synonyms: Aries, Aries the Ram
A tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
Uncastrated adult male sheep.
- usage: "a British term is `tup'"
- synonyms: tup

Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.
- usage: "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
- synonyms: ram down, pound
Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
- usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- synonyms: force, drive
Undergo damage or destruction on impact.
- usage: "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
- synonyms: crash
Crowd or pack to capacity.
- usage: "the theater was jampacked"
- synonyms: jam, jampack, chock up, cram, wad

(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v.t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(v.t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill or the like.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Ram is either masculine or feminine given name

(Military) RAM stands for one of the following: raised angle marker; random access memory; random antiterrorism measure

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

RAM means Reverse-annuity mortgage.