单词 | over-cram |
释义 | † over-cramn. Obsolete. rare. Information or learning that has been over-crammed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > stuffing or cramming > excessively over-cram1895 1895 A. M. Stoddart J. S. Blackie II. 89 Pedantry hallowed by the dry-rot of ages, or jubilant over-cram, its mushroom product. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018). over-cramv. transitive. To cram to excess; to overfill; to cram with too much information. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram > to excess over-cram1599 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 28/2 Take a good Capone, which hath binne choackede, & overcrammed. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 316 Many there are, that be not content to Over-cram Nature with too great a Quantity of Food, but they will needs drown her too, with a deluge of Drink. 1717 H. Wanley Lett. 10 Feb. (1989) 379 I made the same Number of Books serve for the same Shelf, unless the Shelf was over-crammed, or not full. a1758 A. Ramsay Epist. to Mr. H.S. at London in Wks. (1944–73) III. ii. 249 Farewell, & let me be your debtor For what would over-cram a letter, Till we meet fairly nose to nose, Then balance shall be payd in prose. 1777 T. Twining Let. 30 Aug. (1991) I. 135 I have..overcrammed myself with this one subject. 1841 Ladies' Repository Nov. 347/2 Does his nurse over-dose or over-cram him, how instant is his suffering. 1881 Science 1 Oct. 461/2 There is a tendency towards over-cramming the lower schools with a too great variety of subjects. a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) xxvi. 112 They were starving, through being over-crammed with the wrong things. 2000 Sunday Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. Livesey's demonstrated they had a good track record with old buildings, and put forward a scheme that did not over-cram the property. Derivatives ˌover-ˈcramming adj. and n. ΚΠ 1847 E. Fitzgerald Lett. (1980) Jan. I. 555 Dickens..has a very fine account of the over-cramming Education System. 1863 Spectator 23 May 2038/1 The bleeding doctors and over-cramming schoolmasters being by no means uniformly bled and over-crammed in their turn. 1923 R. Pintner Intelligence Testing 212 The over-cramming of his mind with useless knowledge. 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. t11 The barrier collapses before the band go on due to outrageous over cramming of the venue by the promoter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895v.1599 |
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