Quire vs. Ream

A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.

A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.

A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.

Often reams A very large amount

Variant of choir.

To form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole or bore, for example) with a reamer or similar implement.

One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.

To remove (material) by this process.

(bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.

To squeeze the juice out of (fruit) with a reamer.

A book, poem, or pamphlet.

Vulgar Slang To penetrate sexually.

(archaic) A choir.

Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.

One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

An abstract large amount of something.

(intransitive) To sing in concert.

To cream; mantle; foam; froth.

See Choir.

To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

To shape or form, especially using a reamer.

To sing in concert.

To remove (material) by reaming.

A quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets

To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.

To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.

(slang) To yell at or berate.

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

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

To cream; to mantle.

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

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.

A large quantity of written matter;

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

Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer;

Remove by making a hole with a reamer;

Enlarge with a reamer;