Quire vs. Ream — What's the Difference?

Four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts.

A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.

A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.

Often reams A very large amount

A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.

To form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole or bore, for example) with a reamer or similar implement.

Variant of choir.

To remove (material) by this process.

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.

To squeeze the juice out of (fruit) with a reamer.

(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.

Vulgar Slang To penetrate sexually.

A book, poem, or pamphlet.

Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.

(archaic) A choir.

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.

An abstract large amount of something.

(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

To cream; mantle; foam; froth.

(intransitive) To sing in concert.

To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.

See Choir.

To shape or form, especially using a reamer.

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.

To remove (material) by reaming.

To sing in concert.

To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.

A quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets

To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.

(slang) To yell at or berate.

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

To cream; to mantle.

To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

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.

A large quantity of written matter;

A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires

Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer;

Remove by making a hole with a reamer;

Enlarge with a reamer;