Buck vs. Ram: What's the Difference?

A male deer.

Digital memory hardware in which information can be accessed in any order with equal speed.

The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.

A male sheep.

Antelope considered as a group

A battering ram.

A robust or high-spirited young man.

The weight that drops in a pile driver or steam hammer.

A fop.

The plunger or piston of a force pump or hydraulic press.

(Offensive) A Native American or black man.

A hydraulic ram.

An act or instance of bucking

A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.

Buckskin.

A ship having such a projection.

Bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

Ram See Aries.

A sawhorse or sawbuck.

To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

To force or press into place.

(Informal) A dollar.

To cram; stuff

(Informal) An amount of money

To force passage or acceptance of

A large round amount of currency, especially a hundred dollars.

A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

A hundred of some other units, especially miles per hour or pounds

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

(Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

(Informal) Obligation to account for something; responsibility

A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.

To leap upward while arching the back

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

To charge with the head lowered; butt.

An act of ramming.

To make sudden jerky movements; jolt

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.

(ambitransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

(Informal) To strive with determination

(transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

To throw or toss by bucking

(transitive) To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.

To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against

(transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

(Football) To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.

(slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.

To butt against with the head.

(Northern England) rancid; offensive in smell or taste.

To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

Of the lowest rank in a specified military category

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.

An engine of war used for butting or battering.

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

A fop or dandy.

The plunger of a hydraulic press.

A black or Native American man.

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.

A unit of a particular currency

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

A dollar (one hundred cents).

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

A rand (currency unit).

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

A euro.

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

Money.

A tool for driving or forcing something by impact

(finance) One million dollars.

Uncastrated adult male sheep;

One hundred.

Strike or drive against with a heavy impact;

Clipping of buckshot

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

Crowd or pack to capacity;

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

Synonym of buck dance.

Synonym of mule

A kind of large marble in children's games.

(Scotland) The beech tree.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.

To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

A male Indian or negro.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

The beech tree.

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

To strive with determination;

Resist;

Move quickly and violently;

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Of the lowest rank in a category;