ream
noun
- unit of paper quantity
verb
- remove by making a hole
- enlarge a hole with a reamer
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹiːm/
name
Etymology: From the German surname, Anglicized from Riehm, Röhm, Roehm.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English reme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”) (French rame), from Catalan raima (“ream”), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
“The accountants requested reams of financial records.”
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
“I can't go – I still have reams of work left.”
“A large language model (LLM), the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, is a type of neural network, a computer program different from typical software. By feeding it reams of data, engineers train the models to spot patterns and predict what “tokens,” or fragments of words, should come next in a given sequence.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4) with the East Anglian and Kentish development of Old English /yː/ to /eː/ (the modern spelling would thus be unetymologically for *reem). Doublet of room. Cognates * Dutch ruimen (“to empty, evacuate”) * German räumen (“to make room”) * Icelandic rýma (“to make room, clear”).
- To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- To remove (material) by reaming.
- To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- To yell at or berate.