Ream

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.
  • n. A very large amount. Often used in the plural: reams of work to do.
  • v. To form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole or bore, for example) with or as if with a reamer.
  • v. To remove (material) by this process.
  • v. To squeeze the juice out of (fruit) with a reamer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
  • v. To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
  • v. To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
  • v. To remove (material) by reaming.
  • v. To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
  • v. To yell at or berate.
  • v. To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1.
  • n. A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually containing 500 sheets.
  • n. An abstract large amount of something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
  • verb-intransitive. To cream; to mantle.
  • v. 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. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Cream; also, the cream-like froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
  • To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
  • To appear like foam; be fleecy.
  • To make wide; widen; extend; extend by stretching; streteh or draw out.
  • Specifically To widen or enlarge by the use of a rotatory cutter: often with out: used especially of a hole or an opening in metal, and most commonly in connection with splayed or funnel-shaped holes.
  • Nautical, toopen (seams) for calking.
  • To leave; quit.
  • n. A quantity of paper, consisting, for ordinary writing-paper, of 20 quires of 24 sheets each, or 480 sheets; for some kinds of drawing-paper, of 472 or 500 sheets; for printing-paper, of 21½ quires, or 516 sheets.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. enlarge with a reamer
  • n. a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
  • v. squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
  • n. a large quantity of written matter
  • v. remove by making a hole or by boring
  • Verb Form
    reamed    reaming    reams   
    Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    Form
    reamed    reaming   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cream    mantle    enlarge    drift    broach   
    Rhyme
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    Diem    Hakeem    Ibrahim    Joachim    Rahim    Scheme    Sephardim    Supreme    agleam    beam   
    Same Context
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