ramp
English
/ɹæmp/
noun
Definitions
- 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)
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- A speed bump.
- (obsolete) A leap or bound.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
Etymology
Borrowed from French rampe derived from Old French ramper (climb, crawl up, creep) derived from Frankish *rampōn.
Origin
Frankish
*rampōn
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- counter-rampant English
- deramp English
- miniramp English
- off English
- offramp English
- rampant English
- rampantly English
- rampantness English
- ramper English
- rampie English
- rampless English
- rampspeed English
- rampway English
- speed English
- way English
- betoniramppi Finnish
- ramppi Finnish
- ramppikulma Finnish
- ramppikuume Finnish
- ramppivalot Finnish
- skeittiramppi Finnish
- Rampe German
- Rampenlicht German
- rampa Italian
- rampista Italian
- rampe French
- рампа Russian
- rampe Norwegian Bokmål
- rampa Portuguese
- *hrempaną Proto-Germanic
- *hrimpan Proto-Germanic
- ランプウェー Japanese
- rampe Norwegian Nynorsk
- *rampant Middle English
- ramp Middle English
- rampand Middle English
- rampant Old French
- ramper Old French
- rampa Cebuano
- ramper Middle French
- რამპა Georgian
- *rampon Frankish
- *rampōn Frankish