ream

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːm/

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• Homophone: rheme
• Rhymes: -iːm

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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.

• reem, raim

ream

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.

ream (third-person singular simple present reams, present participle reaming, simple past and past participle reamed)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
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     a huge pewter measuring pot […] which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret

Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4).[1] Doublet of room.

ream (third-person singular simple present reams, present participle reaming, simple past and past participle reamed)

1. (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.

   Synonym: rime

2. (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
3. (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.

   Synonym: rime

4. To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
5. (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
6. (slang) To yell at or berate.

   Synonym: ream out

• reem, rim

• (to sexually penetrate): dig out, nail, root, tap; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

• ream job

From Middle English reme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”) (French rame), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).

• reme (obsolete)

ream (plural reams)

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

   Coordinate terms: bale, bundle, quire

2. (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.

• printer's ream

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Amer., Arem, Erma, Maré, amer., mare, mear, rame, ramé

Probably from Latin regimen, regimine. Compare French royaume (Old French reaume, reiame), Occitan reialme, Romansh reginam.

ream m (plural reams)

1. kingdom

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• reâl

ream f

1. accusative singular of rea

ream

1. Alternative form of rem

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).

• IPA^(key): /ræ͜ɑːm/

rēam m

1. cream

• English: ream

Late Middle English, from Old English ream (“cream”).

• IPA^(key): /rim/

ream (uncountable)

1. (food): cream
2. (ointment): cream