| ramp | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. incline, ramp | an inclined surface connecting two levels. |
| ~ inclined plane | a simple machine for elevating objects; consists of plane surface that makes an acute angle with the horizontal. |
| ~ ski jump | a steep downward ramp from which skiers jump. |
| n. (plant) | 2. allium tricoccum, ramp, wild leek | North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers. |
| ~ alliaceous plant | bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. ramp | a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft. |
| ~ staircase, stairway | a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps. |
| v. (stative) | 4. rage, ramp, storm | behave violently, as if in state of a great anger. |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| v. (possession) | 5. ramp | furnish with a ramp.; "The ramped auditorium" |
| ~ architecture | the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect. |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (perception) | 6. ramp | be rampant.; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction" |
| ~ heraldry | the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies. |
| ~ pose, posture, model, sit | assume a posture as for artistic purposes.; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" |
| v. (motion) | 7. ramp | creep up -- used especially of plants.; "The roses ramped over the wall" |
| ~ climb, climb up, go up, mount | go upward with gradual or continuous progress.; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" |
| v. (contact) | 8. ramp | stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing. |
| ~ stand, stand up | be standing; be upright.; "We had to stand for the entire performance!" |
| come down | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. come down, descend, fall, go down | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ prolapse | slip or fall out of place, as of body parts.; "prolapsed rectum" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ abseil, rappel, rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside.; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" |
| ~ dismount, unhorse, get down, light, get off | alight from (a horse). |
| ~ avalanche, roll down | gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow. |
| ~ dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
| ~ go under, go down, set | disappear beyond the horizon.; "the sun sets early these days" |
| ~ slump, correct, decline | go down in value.; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" |
| ~ precipitate | fall vertically, sharply, or headlong.; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" |
| ~ subside, sink | descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" |
| ~ crash | fall or come down violently.; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea" |
| ~ flop | fall suddenly and abruptly. |
| ~ topple, tumble | fall down, as if collapsing.; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" |
| ~ drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| ~ plop | drop with the sound of something falling into water. |
| ~ pitch | fall or plunge forward.; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony" |
| ~ climb down, alight | come down.; "the birds alighted" |
| ~ go under, go down, sink, settle | go under,.; "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
| ~ pounce, swoop | move down on as if in an attack.; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" |
| ~ drip | fall in drops.; "Water is dripping from the faucet" |
| ~ cascade, cascade down | rush down in big quantities, like a cascade. |
| v. (change) | 2. boil down, come down, reduce | be the essential element.; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" |
| ~ become, turn | undergo a change or development.; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" |
| v. (weather) | 3. come down, fall, precipitate | fall from clouds.; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" |
| ~ condense, distil, distill | undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops.; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" |
| ~ fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" |
| ~ rain, rain down | precipitate as rain.; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" |
| ~ spat | come down like raindrops.; "Bullets were spatting down on us" |
| ~ snow | fall as snow.; "It was snowing all night" |
| ~ hail | precipitate as small ice particles.; "It hailed for an hour" |
| ~ sleet | precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow.; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet" |
| v. (body) | 4. come down, sicken | get sick.; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" |
| ~ wan | become pale and sickly. |
| ~ contract, get, take | be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" |
| ~ canker | become infected with a canker. |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| v. (communication) | 5. come down | criticize or reprimand harshly.; "The critics came down hard on the new play" |
| ~ criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock | find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws.; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" |
| dismount | | |
| n. (act) | 1. dismount | the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.). |
| ~ discontinuance, discontinuation | the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent). |
| v. (motion) | 2. dismount, get down, get off, light, unhorse | alight from (a horse). |
| ~ horseback riding, riding | travel by being carried on horseback. |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
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