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Fascicle vs Quire - What's the difference?

fascicle | quire |

As nouns the difference between fascicle and quire

is that fascicle is a bundle or cluster while quire is one-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold or quire can be (archaic) a choir.

As a verb quire is

(bookbinding) to prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper or quire can be to sing in concert.

fascicle

English

(wikipedia fascicle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bundle or cluster.
  • (anatomy): A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
  • (botany): A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
  • (botany): A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
  • A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
  • * 2005 : Cynthia Joanne Brokaw & Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China'', essay ten: ''Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge , by Anne Burkus-Chasson, p371] (The [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press; ISBN 0520231260 (10), ISBN 978-0520231269 (13))
    • The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang)'', sometimes called the “dragon scales” binding ''(longlin zhuang)'', to describe the overlapping sheets of paper within the book; the “fold” binding ''(zhezhuang)'', also known as the “folding s?tra” binding ''(jingzhe zhuang)'' or “Sanskrit” binding ''(fanjia zhuang)'', given its common use in the presentation of Buddhist texts; the “butterfly” binding ''(hudie zhuang)'', whose appellation derives from the effect of fluttering papers that accompanies the opening of the book; and the “thread” binding ''(xianzhuang) , a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles . (For diagrams of these fabrications, see Fig. 30.)

    Related terms

    * fasciculation English terms derived from Latin

    quire

    English

    Etymology 1

    (Paper quire) From (etyl) quier, from (etyl) quaier, from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 592:
    • Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires .
  • * 1929 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 71:
    • […] and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette'', ''Emma'', ''Wuthering Heights'', ''Middlemarch'', were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write ''Wuthering Heights'' or ''Jane Eyre .
  • (bookbinding ) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
  • A book, poem, or pamphlet.
    • Coordinate terms
    * (quantity of paper) bale, bundle, ream

    Verb

    (quir)
  • (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
  • * 1870 , William White, Notes and Queries , vol. 42:
    • Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.
  • * 1938 , The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books , issue 3:
    • This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.
  • * 1976 , Alfred William Pollard, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays :
    • By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    (choir) Older spelling of choir.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A choir.
  • * c.1590 , , I.iii:
    • Madam, myself have lim'd a bush for her,
    And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds,
    That she will light to listen to the lays,
    And never mount to trouble you again.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire
  • The architectural part of a church in which the choir resides, between the nave and the sanctuary.

    • Verb

    (quir)
  • To sing in concert.
  • * c.1598 , , V.i:
    • Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortal souls; / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
  • * 1938 , "
    • He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night.
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