Ream

[Ream]

A ream is a quantity of paper sold in a bundle, once comprised of 480 sheets but now rounded up to 500. If you write reams of love letters to your beloved, I hope she appreciates them. Or at least recycles.

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Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

Noun
a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires

Noun
a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"

Verb
enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"

Verb
remove by making a hole with a reamer; "ream paper"

Verb
squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"

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n.
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

v. i.
To cream; to mantle.

v. t.
To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

n.
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

v. t.
To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.


Ream

Ream , n. [AS. re'a0m, akin to G. rahm.] Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

Ream

Ream, v. i. To cream; to mantle. [Scot.]
A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret.

Ream

Ream, v. t. [Cf. Reim.] To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Ream

Ream, n. [OE. reme, OF. rayme, F. rame (cf. Sp. resma), fr. Ar. rizma a bundle, especially of paper.] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. Printer's ream, twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. Knight.

Ream

Ream, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaming.] [Cf. G. r'84umen to remove, to clear away, fr. raum room. See Room.] To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

To cream; to mantle.

To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

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Usage Examples

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

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