Bale vs. Ream — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bale and Ream
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Bale
French name for Basle
Ream
A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.
Bale
Make up into bales
The straw is left on the field to be baled later
Ream
Often reams A very large amount
Reams of work to do.
Bale
Variant spelling of bail
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Ream
To form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole or bore, for example) with a reamer or similar implement.
Bale
A large bundle of raw or finished material tightly bound with cord or wire and often wrapped
A bale of hay.
Ream
To remove (material) by this process.
Bale
Evil
"Tidings of bale she brought" (William Cullen Bryant).
Ream
To squeeze the juice out of (fruit) with a reamer.
Bale
Mental suffering; anguish
"Relieve my spirit from the bale that bows it down" (Benjamin Disraeli).
Ream
Vulgar Slang To penetrate sexually.
Bale
To wrap in a bale or in bales
A machine that bales cotton.
Ream
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
Bale
Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
Ream
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
Bale
Suffering, woe, torment.
Ream
An abstract large amount of something.
I can't go – I still have reams of work left.
Bale
(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
Ream
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
Bale
(archaic) A funeral pyre.
Ream
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
Bale
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
Ream
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
Bale
A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
Ream
To remove (material) by reaming.
Bale
A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
Ream
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
Bale
A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
Ream
To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
Bale
A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
Ream
(slang) To yell at or berate.
Bale
A block of compressed cannabis.
Ream
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
Bale
(transitive) To wrap into a bale.
Ream
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
Bale
To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
Ream
To cream; to mantle.
A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret.
Bale
A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw, hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
Ream
To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
Bale
Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
Let now your bliss be turned into bale.
Ream
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.
Bale
Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.
Ream
A large quantity of written matter;
He wrote reams and reams
Bale
To make up in a bale.
Ream
A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
Bale
A large bundle bound for storage or transport
Ream
Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer;
Ream oranges
Bale
A city in northwestern Switzerland
Ream
Remove by making a hole with a reamer;
Ream paper
Bale
Make into a bale;
Bale hay
Ream
Enlarge with a reamer;
Ream a hole
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