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raim

raim is the alternative form of rame.

Meaning of rame

Verb

rame (third-person singular simple present rames, present participle raming, simple past and past participle ramed)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To complain or cry incessantly.
    • The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To talk nonsensically.
    • Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission

See all 6 meanings of rame

Noun capitalized: RAIM

RAIM (countable and uncountable, plural RAIMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of redundant array of independent memory.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, navigation) Initialism of receiver autonomous integrity monitoring.

Forms of raim

Verb
third-person singular presentraims
present participleraiming
past participleraimed
pastraimed
Noun
pluralRAIMs

Questions about raim

What is raim the alternative form of?
Raim is the alternative form of rame.
What part of speech is raim?
Raim is a noun.
What is the plural of raim?
The plural of raim is RAIMs.

Words near raim in the dictionary

  1. railworkers
  2. railworks
  3. railworthy
  4. railyard
  5. railyards
  6. raim
  7. raimed
  8. raiment
  9. raimented
  10. raimentless
  11. raiments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raim (page history and authors); RAIM (page history and authors); rame (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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