Ram vs. Sheep — What's the Difference?

An uncastrated male sheep.

Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates.

A battering ram.

A domesticated ruminant mammal (Ovis aries) having a thick coat, raised in many breeds for its wool, edible flesh, or hide.

The falling weight of a piledriving machine.

Any of various wild ruminant mammals related to and resembling the domestic sheep, such as the aoudad, bighorn sheep, and mouflon.

A hydraulic water-raising or lifting machine.

Leather made from the skin of one of these animals.

Roughly force (something) into place

A person regarded as timid, weak, or submissive.

(of a place) be very crowded

One who is easily swayed or led.

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

(countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

A male sheep.

The domestic Ovies aries, the most well known species of Ovis.

A battering ram.

(countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

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

A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).

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

(uncountable) Sheepskin leather.

A hydraulic ram.

A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

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

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

A ship having such a projection.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

Ram See Aries.

Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt

Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

To force or press into place.

A timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

To cram; stuff

A docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision;

To force passage or acceptance of

A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

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

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

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

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

An act of ramming.

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

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

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

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

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

(slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.

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

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

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

An engine of war used for butting or battering.

A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

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

The plunger of a hydraulic press.

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.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

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

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

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

A tool for driving or forcing something by impact

Uncastrated adult male sheep;

Strike or drive against with a heavy impact;

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

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Crowd or pack to capacity;