Ream vs. Sheet — What's the Difference?

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

A thin rectangular piece of fabric for a bed, often used in a pair with one sheet below and one sheet above a person.

Often reams A very large amount

A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.

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

A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.

To remove (material) by this process.

A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse

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

A moving expanse

Vulgar Slang To penetrate sexually.

A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

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

(Computers) A single page of rows and columns constituting a subunit of a spreadsheet.

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

(Geology) A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.

An abstract large amount of something.

A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.

To cream; mantle; foam; froth.

(Mathematics) A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.

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

A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.

To shape or form, especially using a reamer.

Sheets The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.

To remove (material) by reaming.

To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.

To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.

To make into sheets.

To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.

To flow or fall in a sheet

(slang) To yell at or berate.

To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

Being in the form of a sheet

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

A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

To cream; to mantle.

A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

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

A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

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 thin, flat layer of solid material.

A large quantity of written matter;

A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

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

(nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

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

A sail.

Remove by making a hole with a reamer;

(curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.

Enlarge with a reamer;

(nonstandard) A layer of veneer.

(figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.

(geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

(nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

A distinct level or stage within a game.

(transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.

(transitive) To form into sheets.

(intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

(nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; - usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

To expand, as a sheet.

Any broad thin expanse or surface;

Used for writing or printing

Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

Newspaper with half-size pages

A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

Come down as if in sheets;

Cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping;