# ream
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹiːm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: rheme
* Rhymes: -iːm
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Etymology 1

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”) (whence German Wolfram), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.

#### Alternative forms

* reem, raim

#### Noun

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

#### Verb

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; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (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

Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4). Doublet of room.
* Dutch ruimen (“to empty, evacuate”)
* German räumen (“to make room”)
* Icelandic rýma (“to make room, clear”).

#### Verb

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

##### Alternative forms

* reem, rim

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* ream job

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* reme (obsolete)

#### Noun

ream (plural reams)
* A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
    Coordinate terms: bale, bundle, quire
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* printer's ream

##### Translations
#### See also

* Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ “ream, v.$^4$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “ream$^2$, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* mera, Amer., rame, mear, Erma, Maré, Maer, Mera, amer., Arem, arme, ramé, mare

## Friulian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

ream m (plural reams)
* kingdom

#### Related terms

* re
* regn
* reâl

## Latin
### Noun

ream f
* accusative singular of rea

## Middle English
### Noun

ream
* Alternative form of rem

## Old English
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ræ͜ɑːm/

### Noun

rēam m
* cream

#### Descendants

* Middle English: reme, rem, ryme
** English: ream
** Scots: ream, reme, reim
** Yola: reem, rhyme

## Scots
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rim/

### Noun

ream (uncountable)
* (food): cream
* (ointment): cream