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stram

See also: štram

English

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Etymology

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Compare German stramm.

Verb

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stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

  1. (UK, dialect, West Country, obsolete) To dash down; to beat.
  2. To spring or recoil with violence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stram”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German stram.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /stram/, [sd̥ʁɑmˀ]

Adjective

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stram

  1. tight, taut
  2. strict, stringent
  3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
  4. pungent, acrid

Inflection

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Inflection of stram
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular stram strammere strammest2
Indefinite neuter singular stramt strammere strammest2
Plural stramme strammere strammest2
Definite attributive1 stramme strammere strammeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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stram

  1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /strɑm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: stram
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

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stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

  1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

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Declension of stram
uninflected stram
inflected stramme
comparative strammer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stram strammer het stramst
het stramste
indefinite m./f. sing. stramme strammere stramste
n. sing. stram strammer stramste
plural stramme strammere stramste
definite stramme strammere stramste
partitive strams strammers —

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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stram

  1. imperative of stramme

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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stram (comparative stramare, superlative stramast)

  1. tense, taut, tight
    ett stramt koppel
    a tight leash
    en stram budget
    a tight budget
    en stram honnör
    a stiff salute
  2. (figuratively) strict, curt (of manners or the like)
    en stram min
    an austere look on someone's face

Declension

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Inflection of stram
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular stram stramare stramast
Neuter singular stramt stramare stramast
Plural strama stramare stramast
Masculine plural3 strame stramare stramast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 strame stramare stramaste
All strama stramare stramaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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