Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tram
Participle: trammed
Gerund: tramming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tram |
| you | tram |
| he;she;it | trams |
| we | tram |
| you | tram |
| they | tram |
Perfect
| I | have trammed |
| you | have trammed |
| he;she;it | has trammed |
| we | have trammed |
| you | have trammed |
| they | have trammed |
Past
| I | trammed |
| you | trammed |
| he;she;it | trammed |
| we | trammed |
| you | trammed |
| they | trammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had trammed |
| you | had trammed |
| he;she;it | had trammed |
| we | had trammed |
| you | had trammed |
| they | had trammed |
Future
| I | will tram |
| you | will tram |
| he;she;it | will tram |
| we | will tram |
| you | will tram |
| they | will tram |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trammed |
| you | will have trammed |
| he;she;it | will have trammed |
| we | will have trammed |
| you | will have trammed |
| they | will have trammed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tram |
| you | tram |
| he;she;it | tram |
| we | tram |
| you | tram |
| they | tram |
Perfect
| I | have trammed |
| you | have trammed |
| he;she;it | have trammed |
| we | have trammed |
| you | have trammed |
| they | have trammed |
Imperfect
| I | trammed |
| you | trammed |
| he;she;it | trammed |
| we | trammed |
| you | trammed |
| they | trammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had trammed |
| you | had trammed |
| he;she;it | had trammed |
| we | had trammed |
| you | had trammed |
| they | had trammed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tram |
| you | would tram |
| he;she;it | would tram |
| we | would tram |
| you | would tram |
| they | would tram |
Perfect
| I | would have trammed |
| you | would have trammed |
| he;she;it | would have trammed |
| we | would have trammed |
| you | would have trammed |
| they | would have trammed |
Imperative
| you | tram |
| we | Let's tram |
| you | tram |
Verbs conjugated like 'tram'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tram'
cram,
dram,
ram,
stram,
team,
tramp,
trap,
tray,
trim,
arm,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Early 16th century, borrowed from Scots, probably from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus.
2. Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame.
3. The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him.
4. The sense of a rail vehicle derives from tram-way, in its earliest sense meaning literally a log-covered road, but later applied to the earliest wooden railways, used for transporting coal in carts which came to be called "trams".
Sample Sentences
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My invention consists of a frame suspended from another frame, on which the stone rests, and is leveled by screws from below, on which suspended frame are screws, which, being adjusted in the frame when the stone is first leveled by its face, serve afterward to level the stone at any time without removing the runner, and this lower frame serves for tramming the spindle; […] [1875 October 29, James T. Beckwith, “[Patent number] 171,974. Leveling and Tramming Apparatus for Millstones. James T. Beckwith, Cameron Mills, N.Y. [Filed Oct. 29, 1875.]”, in Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for January, 1876: Patents No. 171,641 to 172,817; Reissues No. 6,831 to 6,885, Inclusive, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1876, →OCLC, page 315, column 1:]