Quire vs. Ream — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Quire and Ream
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Quire
Four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts.
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Ream
A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.
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Quire
A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.
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Ream
Often reams A very large amount
Reams of work to do.
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Quire
A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.
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Ream
To form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole or bore, for example) with a reamer or similar implement.
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Quire
Variant of choir.
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Ream
To remove (material) by this process.
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Quire
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
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Ream
To squeeze the juice out of (fruit) with a reamer.
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Quire
(bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
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Ream
Vulgar Slang To penetrate sexually.
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Quire
A book, poem, or pamphlet.
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Ream
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
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Quire
(archaic) A choir.
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Ream
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
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Quire
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
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Ream
An abstract large amount of something.
I can't go – I still have reams of work left.
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Quire
(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
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Ream
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
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Quire
(intransitive) To sing in concert.
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Ream
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
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Quire
See Choir.
A quire of such enticing birds.
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Ream
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
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Quire
A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
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Ream
To remove (material) by reaming.
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Quire
To sing in concert.
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Ream
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
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Quire
A quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
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Ream
To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
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Ream
(slang) To yell at or berate.
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Ream
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
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Ream
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
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Ream
To cream; to mantle.
A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret.
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Ream
To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
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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.
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Ream
A large quantity of written matter;
He wrote reams and reams
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Ream
A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
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Ream
Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer;
Ream oranges
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Ream
Remove by making a hole with a reamer;
Ream paper
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Ream
Enlarge with a reamer;
Ream a hole
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