ream
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English reme, rem, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”).
Cognate with Dutch room (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.
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ream
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
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ream (third-person singular simple present reams, present participle reaming, simple past and past participle reamed)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- a huge pewter measuring pot […] which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
Etymology 2 edit
Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4).[1] Doublet of room.
Verb edit
ream (third-person singular simple present reams, present participle reaming, simple past and past participle reamed)
- (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- Synonym: rime
- (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
- (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- Synonym: rime
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- (slang) To yell at or berate.
- Synonym: ream out
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- (to sexually penetrate): dig out, nail, root, tap; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
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Etymology 3 edit
From Middle English reme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”) (French rame), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).
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- reme (obsolete)
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ream (plural reams)
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
- Synonyms: bunch, load, pile; see also Thesaurus:lot
- I can't go – I still have reams of work left.
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Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- ^ “ream, v.4”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “ream2, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Etymology edit
Probably from Latin regimen, regimine. Compare French royaume (Old French reaume, reiame), Occitan reialme, Romansh reginam.
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ream m (plural reams)
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ream f
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ream
- Alternative form of rem
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.
Cognate with Middle Low German rōm, Middle Dutch room, Old High German roum (German Rahm), Old Norse rjúmi (Icelandic rjómi, Norwegian rømme).
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rēam m
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- English: ream
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Late Middle English, from Old English ream (“cream”).
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ream (uncountable)