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noun riːmrim 1500 (formerly 480) sheets of paper. Example sentencesExamples - Oskar has convinced Bruno to buy him a ream of blank white paper (Oskar terms it ‘virgin’ paper) so that he can write out his autobiography.
- Intent on getting 10,000 bills of paper, I visited my local stationers and bought six 500-sheet reams of paper.
- Mr Arthur told the paper that he had used 20 reams of typing paper in compiling the guide.
- But these were simply photocopies made on paper purchased in cheap reams.
- I ran over several unlabeled reams but they turned out to be low quality Xerox paper inadequate for the report.
- I confess I reverted to form and consumed nearly a ream of paper printing out the contents of the Websites I visited.
- A block of stamps the size of a ream of A4 paper would be worth a quarter of a million pounds - and you could just put it under your arm and walk away.
- ‘We go through countless reams of paper,’ he said.
- Diving in Spain was hampered in the past by a police state that wanted a ream of paperwork before you were allowed to do anything.
- I bought a ream of paper and kept it close at hand.
- The demand for ream after ream of white paper is putting a huge strain not only on America's forests, but the world's.
- With two reams, he wouldn't have to worry about running out in the middle of a good part and having to get up to run to the store.
- I bought a ream of paper and a glue stick for photocopying my zine.
- This printer has just about everything you're looking for in a package only slightly larger than a ream of paper.
- African colleagues are amused at the way I carry a ream of paper on my head.
- About 380,000 reams of paper were used for printing the rolls.
- If I glance over to my bag on the floor there's a shape about the thickness of two reams of paper in it.
- In fact, I think the ream of paper sitting next to my printer is actually the same package I bought when I got to New York.
- Besides the main entrance to the room, there was another door, which now opened, and a clerk came out, clutching a ream of paper and his writing instruments.
- The duty cycle is up to 850,000 pages a month, which is 1,700 reams of paper.
- 1.1usually reams A large quantity of something, especially paper or writing.
reams of paper have been used to debate these questions Example sentencesExamples - I wrote reams of poetry in my sixth form days, as a lot of people do.
- She took out her violin case and the ream of papers that was to be her and Brian's performance for John Cawthorne's little concert.
- I spent the days, and some of the nights, of that summer feverishly filling reams of paper with formulas.
- Because the boundary between work and life tends to be fuzzy anyway, it's easy to bring home some envelopes, a few stamps, and a ream of paper in case a ministry-related letter needs to go out quickly.
- There are reams of research papers devoted to it.
- We have handed over petitions - reams and reams of paper - and where has it got us?
- The case contains reams of papers, including cuttings from England, Norway, Finland and Germany dating from 1936 to 1975.
- This necessitated that each campaigner maintain a ream of petitions, a separate sheet for each locality in the area.
- This includes a handy option for printing multiple document pages on a single sheet of paper, so you can preview your finished results in miniature without wasting reams of paper.
- At first we were recycling reams and reams of paper but that has gone down as we are using less and using both sides.
- Operations can also be reviewed at any time ‘without having to go through reams of paper, ‘she adds.’
- Meeting planners promise that all these new devices will liberate conference-goers from their social insecurities and the reams of paper that can attach themselves to attendees.
- They're going to be holding reams of paper with every word I've ever written here printed out on them and they are going to accuse me of being a traitor and a terrorist.
- Just as perplexing have been the mounting reams of academic papers examining her life and thought.
- From nature to human tragedies, the photographs tell tales reams of paper cannot.
- For months I worked nonstop grinding out the detailed specification for the system - a monumental ream of paper going into incredible detail covering a gigantic object model and programming environment.
- English historians, for instance, have used the reams of paper generated by the courts that dealt with serious crimes.
- But he also wrote reams of unpublished serious music.
- It was a gripping photo that told the world more about the horrors of war than hours of talk or reams of paper ever could.
- His desk, by contrast, had very few papers on it and some intuition told me that the slim ream of papers gathered orderly into a coherent pile meant something.
Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French raime, based on Arabic rizma 'bundle'. The term ream for 500 sheets of paper goes back ultimately to Arabic rizma ‘bundle’. In the later 16th century it came to mean a large quantity of paper, without reference to the specific number of sheets—in 1814 Sir Walter Scott referred to ‘whole reams of modern plays’. In turn this gave us the general use of reams of to mean ‘a large quantity of’, which is found from the beginning of the 20th century.
Rhymes abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream verb riːmrim [with object]1Widen (a hole) with a special tool. a fan which has a small enough hole to be reamed out to the correct size Example sentencesExamples - Once cooled, the outer clay is chipped away and the carbonized core reamed out, with the casting filed and chased.
- At this stage, you've reamed the primer pocket and the flash hole.
- If step 4 does not work, you need to go to a machine shop and get the post reamed out of the seat tube.
- If the only drill is too small, use a small screwdriver, knife, or round file to ream out the hole until the fastener will slide in snugly.
- Wilson drills and reams a hole that will form the beginning of the bolt channel.
- A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter.
- Put the bar in place, give it a good whack with a hammer to mark the spot, and ream out a large enough hole so that the bar fits flush with the ceiling.
- 1.1 Widen a bore or hole in (a gun or other metal object) with a special tool.
the rods were marked out, drilled, and reamed Example sentencesExamples - The remaining piece was then reamed out and a straight piece of barrel blank turned to fit and soldered in place.
- It can also be used in drilling, end milling and reaming applications.
- The original chamber was simply reamed out about 0.10’ oversize and a steel sleeve silver soldered in place.
- After gun drilling, the rough bore must be reamed to establish the desired internal diameter and to improve surface finish.
- The first honest to goodness minute-of-angle sporting rifle I ever owned was reamed to .300.
- The only thing a framebuilder could do is build up some brass inside the end of the head tube and ream it out to the proper size.
- Pete wanted something a little more elaborate and chose a custom rifle reamed to 7x57.
- The .38 Super cartridge is larger in diameter than the .38 Special, so the first efforts involved reaming out the chamber area and making a sleeve that was silver soldered in place.
- The frame and barrel are a single casting, which allows for easy manufacturing, but poses challenges to drilling, reaming and rifling.
- Each of the six machines are capable of performing all of the necessary machining processes on each knuckle including milling, drilling, reaming and cutting all ball joint angles and tapers.
- 1.2North American Clear out or remove (material) from something.
pierce, probe, and ream out the bony chambers of the crab's body Example sentencesExamples - Ditching old equipment while making a tidy profit is classic Bell monopoly reaming.
- The fluid jets clean the blades during the reaming operation and inject fluid into the formation to mix slurry and lubricate the equipment.
- He jumped up and reamed the glass shards out of the windowsill.
- The medullar canal was reamed, and an aluminum connecting piece was attached to the top of the tibia with screws and an epoxy resin.
- This rate is possible because reaming removes very little material.
- When we re-installed the outer wings, we reamed the taper hole to clean out the corrosion.
- Sounding rods were used before antibiotics to ream out a gonorrhoea-mangled urethra.
- After you have cut the pipe, use the special blade on the tubing cutter to ream out the ‘burr ‘on the inside of the newly cut pipe.’
- The dentist just completed an involved routine wherein one of my four favorite molars was reamed and repaired.
2North American informal Rebuke (someone) fiercely. the agent reamed him out for walking away from the deal Example sentencesExamples - We didn't speak the entire way home and I just know he was about to explode and ream me a new one.
- He kissed me softly before he left and I was about to ream him a new one before I saw Jason standing at the foot of the stairs.
- Of course, things were supposed to go on as normal for the next few hours until she could really ream him out.
- Against Syracuse, though, Cleaves had to ream Peterson at halftime for his reluctance to assert himself.
- She periodically gets up and goes into the next room and reams him out at top volume, while her obviously very fragile patient writhes on the couch.
- Gloria entered Artie's office clutching her wounded arm, hoping it would buy her a little sympathy before he reamed her for her disappearance earlier that day.
- Her mind reeled back an hour, to when she'd been standing in Rick's office as he reamed her a new one.
- His wife would ream him good tonight when she found out he spent the afternoon at the track instead of the home improvement store.
- I'm not saying Moore is above criticism either, I really reamed him out earlier this year when he endorsed Clark.
- Too many times, we see a critic veer off the page to ream an author for the facts of his or her life.
Synonyms rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the riot act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure 3North American vulgar slang Have anal intercourse with.
Phrases ream someone's ass (or butt) vulgar slang Criticize or rebuke someone.
Origin Early 19th century: of unknown origin. verb riːmrim [no object]Northern Irish, Scottish Froth or overflow. a full pot reaming with froth Example sentencesExamples - He is reaming over with brave, bright dreams of what he would like to do in this world.
- A huge pewter measuring pot reamed with excellent claret.
- It was washed down with a draught of Yule-ale that reamed briskly in a corner of the kitchen.
- His ladle ploutered in the reaming brew.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old English ream 'cream', of uncertain origin. nounrēmrim 1500 (formerly 480) sheets of paper. Example sentencesExamples - About 380,000 reams of paper were used for printing the rolls.
- In fact, I think the ream of paper sitting next to my printer is actually the same package I bought when I got to New York.
- I bought a ream of paper and kept it close at hand.
- African colleagues are amused at the way I carry a ream of paper on my head.
- I confess I reverted to form and consumed nearly a ream of paper printing out the contents of the Websites I visited.
- ‘We go through countless reams of paper,’ he said.
- Intent on getting 10,000 bills of paper, I visited my local stationers and bought six 500-sheet reams of paper.
- I bought a ream of paper and a glue stick for photocopying my zine.
- But these were simply photocopies made on paper purchased in cheap reams.
- This printer has just about everything you're looking for in a package only slightly larger than a ream of paper.
- Besides the main entrance to the room, there was another door, which now opened, and a clerk came out, clutching a ream of paper and his writing instruments.
- If I glance over to my bag on the floor there's a shape about the thickness of two reams of paper in it.
- A block of stamps the size of a ream of A4 paper would be worth a quarter of a million pounds - and you could just put it under your arm and walk away.
- Diving in Spain was hampered in the past by a police state that wanted a ream of paperwork before you were allowed to do anything.
- The duty cycle is up to 850,000 pages a month, which is 1,700 reams of paper.
- I ran over several unlabeled reams but they turned out to be low quality Xerox paper inadequate for the report.
- With two reams, he wouldn't have to worry about running out in the middle of a good part and having to get up to run to the store.
- Oskar has convinced Bruno to buy him a ream of blank white paper (Oskar terms it ‘virgin’ paper) so that he can write out his autobiography.
- The demand for ream after ream of white paper is putting a huge strain not only on America's forests, but the world's.
- Mr Arthur told the paper that he had used 20 reams of typing paper in compiling the guide.
- 1.1 A large quantity of something, typically paper or writing on paper.
reams of paper have been used to debate these questions Example sentencesExamples - From nature to human tragedies, the photographs tell tales reams of paper cannot.
- The case contains reams of papers, including cuttings from England, Norway, Finland and Germany dating from 1936 to 1975.
- Just as perplexing have been the mounting reams of academic papers examining her life and thought.
- This includes a handy option for printing multiple document pages on a single sheet of paper, so you can preview your finished results in miniature without wasting reams of paper.
- We have handed over petitions - reams and reams of paper - and where has it got us?
- English historians, for instance, have used the reams of paper generated by the courts that dealt with serious crimes.
- This necessitated that each campaigner maintain a ream of petitions, a separate sheet for each locality in the area.
- There are reams of research papers devoted to it.
- I spent the days, and some of the nights, of that summer feverishly filling reams of paper with formulas.
- But he also wrote reams of unpublished serious music.
- For months I worked nonstop grinding out the detailed specification for the system - a monumental ream of paper going into incredible detail covering a gigantic object model and programming environment.
- They're going to be holding reams of paper with every word I've ever written here printed out on them and they are going to accuse me of being a traitor and a terrorist.
- Because the boundary between work and life tends to be fuzzy anyway, it's easy to bring home some envelopes, a few stamps, and a ream of paper in case a ministry-related letter needs to go out quickly.
- Operations can also be reviewed at any time ‘without having to go through reams of paper, ‘she adds.’
- It was a gripping photo that told the world more about the horrors of war than hours of talk or reams of paper ever could.
- At first we were recycling reams and reams of paper but that has gone down as we are using less and using both sides.
- His desk, by contrast, had very few papers on it and some intuition told me that the slim ream of papers gathered orderly into a coherent pile meant something.
- Meeting planners promise that all these new devices will liberate conference-goers from their social insecurities and the reams of paper that can attach themselves to attendees.
- I wrote reams of poetry in my sixth form days, as a lot of people do.
- She took out her violin case and the ream of papers that was to be her and Brian's performance for John Cawthorne's little concert.
Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French raime, based on Arabic rizma ‘bundle’. verbrēmrim [with object]1Widen (a bore or hole) with a special tool. Example sentencesExamples - Once cooled, the outer clay is chipped away and the carbonized core reamed out, with the casting filed and chased.
- At this stage, you've reamed the primer pocket and the flash hole.
- If step 4 does not work, you need to go to a machine shop and get the post reamed out of the seat tube.
- If the only drill is too small, use a small screwdriver, knife, or round file to ream out the hole until the fastener will slide in snugly.
- Put the bar in place, give it a good whack with a hammer to mark the spot, and ream out a large enough hole so that the bar fits flush with the ceiling.
- Wilson drills and reams a hole that will form the beginning of the bolt channel.
- A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out (as bone dust) burr holes about 1 cm in diameter.
- 1.1 Widen a bore or hole in (a gun or other metal object) with a special tool.
Example sentencesExamples - The original chamber was simply reamed out about 0.10’ oversize and a steel sleeve silver soldered in place.
- After gun drilling, the rough bore must be reamed to establish the desired internal diameter and to improve surface finish.
- Pete wanted something a little more elaborate and chose a custom rifle reamed to 7x57.
- The remaining piece was then reamed out and a straight piece of barrel blank turned to fit and soldered in place.
- The only thing a framebuilder could do is build up some brass inside the end of the head tube and ream it out to the proper size.
- The .38 Super cartridge is larger in diameter than the .38 Special, so the first efforts involved reaming out the chamber area and making a sleeve that was silver soldered in place.
- The frame and barrel are a single casting, which allows for easy manufacturing, but poses challenges to drilling, reaming and rifling.
- It can also be used in drilling, end milling and reaming applications.
- The first honest to goodness minute-of-angle sporting rifle I ever owned was reamed to .300.
- Each of the six machines are capable of performing all of the necessary machining processes on each knuckle including milling, drilling, reaming and cutting all ball joint angles and tapers.
- 1.2North American Clear out or remove (material) from something.
Example sentencesExamples - Sounding rods were used before antibiotics to ream out a gonorrhoea-mangled urethra.
- When we re-installed the outer wings, we reamed the taper hole to clean out the corrosion.
- The fluid jets clean the blades during the reaming operation and inject fluid into the formation to mix slurry and lubricate the equipment.
- The medullar canal was reamed, and an aluminum connecting piece was attached to the top of the tibia with screws and an epoxy resin.
- This rate is possible because reaming removes very little material.
- After you have cut the pipe, use the special blade on the tubing cutter to ream out the ‘burr ‘on the inside of the newly cut pipe.’
- The dentist just completed an involved routine wherein one of my four favorite molars was reamed and repaired.
- He jumped up and reamed the glass shards out of the windowsill.
- Ditching old equipment while making a tidy profit is classic Bell monopoly reaming.
- 1.3North American vulgar slang Have anal intercourse with (someone).
- 1.4North American informal Rebuke someone fiercely.
the agent was reaming him out for walking away from the deal Example sentencesExamples - She periodically gets up and goes into the next room and reams him out at top volume, while her obviously very fragile patient writhes on the couch.
- Of course, things were supposed to go on as normal for the next few hours until she could really ream him out.
- Gloria entered Artie's office clutching her wounded arm, hoping it would buy her a little sympathy before he reamed her for her disappearance earlier that day.
- We didn't speak the entire way home and I just know he was about to explode and ream me a new one.
- I'm not saying Moore is above criticism either, I really reamed him out earlier this year when he endorsed Clark.
- Her mind reeled back an hour, to when she'd been standing in Rick's office as he reamed her a new one.
- He kissed me softly before he left and I was about to ream him a new one before I saw Jason standing at the foot of the stairs.
- Against Syracuse, though, Cleaves had to ream Peterson at halftime for his reluctance to assert himself.
- His wife would ream him good tonight when she found out he spent the afternoon at the track instead of the home improvement store.
- Too many times, we see a critic veer off the page to ream an author for the facts of his or her life.
Synonyms rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the riot act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure
Phrases ream someone's ass (or butt) vulgar slang Criticize or rebuke someone.
Origin Early 19th century: of unknown origin. verbrēmrim [no object]Scottish, Northern Irish Froth or overflow. a full pot reaming with froth Example sentencesExamples - A huge pewter measuring pot reamed with excellent claret.
- It was washed down with a draught of Yule-ale that reamed briskly in a corner of the kitchen.
- His ladle ploutered in the reaming brew.
- He is reaming over with brave, bright dreams of what he would like to do in this world.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old English ream ‘cream’, of uncertain origin. |