Word Study
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
ream
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ream has 2 senses
- ream(n = noun.quantity) Array - a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
- ream(n = noun.quantity) Array - a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires; Array is a kind of definite quantity
has parts: quire
Verb ream has 3 senses
- ream(v = verb.contact) Array - squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges" is one way to express, extract, press out
- ream(v = verb.change) Array - remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment" is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
- ream(v = verb.change) Array - enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole" is one way to enlarge
Derived form noun reamer1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun reamer2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
ream, n. [AS. reám, akin to G. rahm.].
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [1913 Webster]
ream, v. i.
To cream; to mantle. [1913 Webster]
"A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret."
[1913 Webster]
ream, v. t. [Cf. Reim.].
To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
ream, v. t. [Cf. G. räumen 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ream, n.
1 twenty quires or 500 (formerly 480) sheets of paper (or a larger number, to allow for waste).
2 (in pl.) a large quantity of paper or writing (wrote reams about it).
1 twenty quires or 500 (formerly 480) sheets of paper (or a larger number, to allow for waste).
2 (in pl.) a large quantity of paper or writing (wrote reams about it).
ream, v.tr.
1 widen (a hole in metal etc.) with a borer.
2 turn over the edge of (a cartridge-case etc.).
3 Naut. open (a seam) for caulking.
4 US squeeze the juice from (fruit).
1 widen (a hole in metal etc.) with a borer.
2 turn over the edge of (a cartridge-case etc.).
3 Naut. open (a seam) for caulking.
4 US squeeze the juice from (fruit).
Derivative
reamer n.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. uncert.
THESAURUS
ream
auger, bawl out, beat, bilk, bite, bore, broach, bugger, cardboard, chew, chew ass, chew out, chisel, countersink, cozen, cuss out, diddle, do, drill, empierce, fellate, fix, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, gobs, gore, gouge, gouge out, gyp, heap, hole, honeycomb, impale, jack up, lambaste, lance, leaf, loads, mace, masturbate, needle, oodles, open up, page, paper, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pink, prick, punch, puncture, quantities, quire, ream ass, ream out, riddle, run through, screw, sheet, sit on, skewer, slew, sodomize, spear, spike, spit, stab, stationery, stick, tap, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, wadsROGET THESAURUS
ream
Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
For further exploring for "ream" in Webster Dictionary Online
