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Verb
/rēm/,
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reams, plural;
  1. Widen (a bore or hole) with a special tool

  2. Widen a bore or hole in (a gun or other metal object) in such a way

  3. Clear out or remove (material) from something

  4. vulgar. Have anal intercourse with (someone)

  5. Rebuke someone fiercely
    • - the agent was reaming him out for walking away from the deal
Noun
  1. 500 (formerly 480) sheets of paper

  2. A large quantity of something, typically paper or writing on paper
    • - reams of paper have been used to debate these questions
  1. squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"
  2. a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
  3. a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
  4. remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"
  5. Ream is a textual, screen-based email client developed by Paul Dourish at the Center for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh. Initially developed in 1986, it was one of the standard email clients for the university and was in use throughout the campus for around ten years. ...
  6. A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually containing 500 sheets; An abstract large amount of something; To cream; mantle; foam; froth
  7. 500 sheets of paper.
  8. A number of sheets of paper, commonly either 480 or 500 according to grade.
  9. Certain number of sheets of paper, wrapped in protecting paper.
  10. The process of enlarging a cavity so that a prosthesis can be inserted. Reaming most commonly is performed in the femur for insertion of a femoral nail.
  11. Usually 500 sheets of paper regardless of size, weight, or grade. Cover and index are usually packaged 250 sheets to the ream.
  12. Equal to 432,000 square inches or 3,000 square feet.
  13. Rangeland Ecology and Management (was Rangeland Resources)
  14. To extract the juice from fruit, especially citrus.
  15. In papermaking, this term comes from the Arabic word rizmah which means packet or bale. A ream of paper consists of five hundred sheets, i.e. twenty hands of twenty five sheets.
  16. A quantity of paper, measured by area.  For fine papers (not intended to be absorbent), one ream is usually 500 sheets.  For absorbent tissue papers, one ream can equal 2880 square feet or 3000 square feet, depending upon the company.
  17. A term used to denote 500 sheets of industrial paper. (see also basis weight.)
  18. 500 sheets of printing paper. Stacks and skids of paper often include slips of paper (ream markers) marking the division of the stack into reams.
  19. Another word for one or more package of sheets. Typically, all text and bond weights come in a ream or package of 500 sheets and cover weights come in packages or reams of 250 sheets.
  20. 500 sheets,  formerly 480 (based on 20 “quires” of 24 sheets)
  21. To increase the diameter of a borehole using a reaming bit or reamer.
  22. A machine operation consisting of enlarging a hole slightly to a close tolerance.
  23. 500 sheets of paper of the same size, quality and weight.
  24. To finish a hole accurately with a rotating fluted tool.
  25. To enlarge tube end opening; de-burr.