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発音

• IPA: /ɹiːm/
• Homophone: rheme
• 韻: -iːm

語源 1

From 中期英語 reme, rem, from 古期英語 rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Room (“cream”), West Frisian rjemme (“cream”), Dutch room (“cream”), German Low German Rahm, Rohm (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Swedish römme (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Faroese rómi (“cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.

別の表記

• reem, raim

名詞

ream

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

派生語

• reamy

動詞

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.
   • 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

語源 2

Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4) with the East Anglian and Kentish development of 古期英語 /yː/ to /eː/ (the modern spelling would thus be unetymologically for *reem). Doublet of room.

動詞

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

別の表記

• reem, rim

同意語

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

派生語

• ream job

語源 3

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

別の表記

• reme (obsolete)

名詞

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.

   • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎:

     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.

派生語

参考

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

アナグラム

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

発音

• IPA: /ræ͜ɑːm/

名詞

rēam m

1. cream

派生した語

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