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Bale vs. Ream — What's the Difference?

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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