What part of speech is ramp?

Ramp can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. ramp is a verb, present, 1st person singular of ramp (infinitive).
  • 2. ramp is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. ramp is a noun, singular of ramps.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does ramp mean?

Definitions

Verb

ramp - behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
ramp - furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium"
ramp - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"
ramp - stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
ramp - creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall"

Noun

ramp - an inclined surface connecting two levels
ramp - a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
ramp - North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers

Examples of ramp

#   Sentence  
1. verb Once the Manmohan Singh government shows that it has little appetite for suicide, Musharraf will face the moment of truth: accept the inevitable, or once again ramp up the insurgency and spawn a fresh lot of killers that can hit not merely Mumbai and New Delhi but London and Chicago as well.
2. verb I guess those guns will be located enroute to Venezuela or found in storage there by one of the US's local stooges and they then have a pretext to ramp the spin up a notch or two.
3. noun Three men jumped out, rolled an old mower down the ramp.
4. noun I'm near the on ramp to 25 north.
5. noun Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.
6. noun Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a ramp, jump and try to land as far as possible.
7. noun She plied her trade near the freeway on ramp.
8. noun Tom refused to jump his moped over the ramp because he didn't have an au pair to watch the children.
9. noun Trump is coordinating diplomatic effort to ramp up pressure on Iran.
10. noun She wrenched her back when she flew off the ramp while riding a runaway snowmobile.
11. noun She needs a ramp to get off the train with her wheelchair.
12. noun He needs a ramp to get off the train with his wheelchair.
13. noun Tom's car stalled going up the ramp.
14. noun The company was able to ramp up sales by hiring more employees and streamlining working practices.
15. noun Algeria needs to massively ramp up its gas production.
Sentence  
verb
Once the Manmohan Singh government shows that it has little appetite for suicide, Musharraf will face the moment of truth: accept the inevitable, or once again ramp up the insurgency and spawn a fresh lot of killers that can hit not merely Mumbai and New Delhi but London and Chicago as well.
I guess those guns will be located enroute to Venezuela or found in storage there by one of the US's local stooges and they then have a pretext to ramp the spin up a notch or two.
noun
Three men jumped out, rolled an old mower down the ramp.
I'm near the on ramp to 25 north.
Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.
Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a ramp, jump and try to land as far as possible.
She plied her trade near the freeway on ramp.
Tom refused to jump his moped over the ramp because he didn't have an au pair to watch the children.
Trump is coordinating diplomatic effort to ramp up pressure on Iran.
She wrenched her back when she flew off the ramp while riding a runaway snowmobile.
She needs a ramp to get off the train with her wheelchair.
He needs a ramp to get off the train with his wheelchair.
Tom's car stalled going up the ramp.
The company was able to ramp up sales by hiring more employees and streamlining working practices.
Algeria needs to massively ramp up its gas production.

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