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My family (dau. and Hubby) has gotten me reading mysteries by John Sandford (Camp). All 3 I've read so far are set in Minneapolis, and--speaking of mysteries--there are references to parking ramps. I've heard of parking lots, parking spaces, and parking garages, but. What in the world is a parking ramp, please?
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a parking garage is a space where you or I park the family car! a parking ramp is a structure in which multiple cars can be parked. link (see Nomenclature)
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Generally the levels in a parking ramp are not level. They will be a ramp going from one story to the next, hence the term "parking ramp".
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parking rampsUsually, one is forbidden to park or walk on a parking ramp. The French verb that ramp comes from means 'to rise, rear up'. There is a verbal meaning of ramp in English of which I was unaware: ramp 'to act threateningly or violently; to assume a threatening stance' ( link), thjough I knew of the accompanying adjective form rampant used in heraldry of quadrupeds rearing up on two legs.
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We use parking garage, but parking ramp would be a synonym, and you would be understood, although it's not commonly used here. In most of them in this area there are no level spaces, except at the ends where the direction changes, and sometimes at the very top, usually unroofed, and not very many. So parking ramp makes sense.
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for those who couldn't be arsed to take the link (above):
The term multi-storey car park is used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore and many Commonwealth of Nations countries. In the western United States, the term parking structure is used, especially when it is necessary to distinguish such a structure from the "garage" in a house or an automobile service station. In some places in North America, "parking garage" refers only to an indoor, often underground structure – outdoor multi-level parking facilities are referred to by a number of regional terms:
* Parking structure is used in the Western United States and by civil engineers;
* Parking deck is used in the Southeast;
* Parkade is used in Canadian English; it is a portmanteau of parking and arcade;
* Parking ramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been observed as far east as Toledo, Ohio and Buffalo, New York.[EA]
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Parking ramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been observed as far east as Toledo, Ohio and Buffalo, New York.
Well, Feldwebel Freitag, I got the impression that nearly 95% of our loyal readership ignores links thinking that they suck souls from infants quicker than a lolcat. (Might have something to do with lurking PDFs and other of such-like ilk.) While I have been in the Midwest, on occasion, I have never engaged a local in a discussion of parking garages. Come to think on it, my Midwestern interlocutors were usually talking to me about that fact that I was not from around there.
Uncle "wild oats rampant" Jazzbeau
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nuncle z,
you aren't from around here, are you‽
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nuncle z,
you aren't from around here, are you‽
-ron o. For those who can't be arsed to read the "Location" portion of the poster's information, no, he's from R'lyeh.
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tsuwm was just trying to ramp up the discussion a bit...
(per z's thoughts)
and yes, I would always use up along with ramp in this case.
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