What is "ream"

Ream \Ream\ (r[=e]m), n. [AS. re['a]m, akin to G. rahm.] Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

Ream \Ream\, v. i. To cream; to mantle. [Scot.]

A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret.
--Sir W. Scott.

Ream \Ream\, v. t. [Cf. Reim.] To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Ream \Ream\, n. [OE. reme, OF. rayme, F. rame (cf. Sp. resma), fr. Ar. rizma a bundle, especially of paper.] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

Printer's ream, twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream.
--Knight.

Ream \Ream\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reamed (r[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaming.] [Cf. G. r["a]umen to remove, to clear away, fr. raum room. See Room.] 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.

measure of paper, mid-14c., from Old French reyme, from Spanish resma, from Arabic rizmah "bundle" (of paper), from rasama "collect into a bundle." The Moors brought manufacture of cotton paper to Spain.\n

\nEarly variant rym (late 15c.) suggests a Dutch influence (compare Dutch riem), probably borrowed from Spanish during the time of Hapsburg control of Holland. For ordinary writing paper, 20 quires of 24 sheets each, or 480 sheets; often 500 or more to allow for waste; slightly different numbers for drawing or printing paper.

"to enlarge a hole," 1815, probably a southwest England dialectal survival from Middle English reme "to make room, open up," from Old English ryman "widen, extend, enlarge," from Proto-Germanic *rumijan (cognates: Old Saxon rumian, Old Norse ryma, Old Frisian rema, Old High German rumen "to make room, widen"), from *rumaz "spacious" (see room (n.)). Slang meaning "to cheat, swindle" first recorded 1914; anal sex sense is from 1942. To ream (someone) out "scold, reprimand" is recorded from 1950.

"cream" (obsolete), Old English ream, from Proto-Germanic *raumoz (cognates: Middle Dutch and Dutch room, German Rahm), of uncertain origin.

Etymology 1 alt. (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. n. (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. vb. (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To cream; mantle; foam; froth. Etymology 2

alt. 1 To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. 2 To shape or form, especially using a reamer. 3 To remove (material) by reaming. 4 To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole. 5 (context slang English) To yell at or berate. 6 (context slang vulgar English) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1. vb. 1 To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. 2 To shape or form, especially using a reamer. 3 To remove (material) by reaming. 4 To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole. 5 (context slang English) To yell at or berate. 6 (context slang vulgar English) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1. Etymology 3

alt. 1 A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. 2 (lb en chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something. n. 1 A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. 2 (lb en chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.

1. n. a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"

2. a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires

3. v. squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"

4. remove by making a hole with a reamer; "ream paper"

5. enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"

Ream may refer to:

• Paper ream, unit of 500 sheets of paper
• Ream (surname)
• Ream (e-mail client), a textual e-mail client
• Reamer, tool used to widen a hole
• Ream, West Virginia
• Ream, the name of Rama in the Khmer version of the Ramayana, the Reamker
• Ream National Park, a national park in Cambodia
• Ream Naval Base, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Ream is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Dwight Ream (1892–1954), American football and basketball coach
• Norman B. Ream (1844-1915), American businessman.
• Roger Ream (born 1954), President of The Fund for American Studies
• Tim Ream (born 1987), American soccer player
• Vinnie Ream or Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie (1847–1914), American sculptor

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. Freely available on the internet, it was ported to a large number of UNIX-based operating systems including OSF/1, BSD 2.10, Unicos, Ultrix, HP-UX, and Dynix, and was made compatible with email infrastructures based on sendmail, MMDF, and PP.

Its more advanced features include an automatic mechanism for determining where messages should be saved (making it extremely fast to process incoming messages), a zero-cost-override input feature derived from Interlisp, stackable message selection based on regular expressions, a fast regular expression engine with a tiny footprint, and tight integration with external text editors, allowing users to rely on their favourite tools for composing and editing text.

Ream was developed at around the same time as Elm, and is similar in its broad interface approach.

Ream was designed in an era of multi-user minicomputer and mainframe systems, before protocols such as POP and IMAP were widely deployed. Similarly, it predated widespread use of MIME encoding, necessary to support file attachments. Lack of support for these features caused use of ream to dwindle in the late 1990s.