Ream vs Team - What's the difference?
ream | team |
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
* Sir Walter Scott
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
To remove (material) by reaming.
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
(slang) To yell at or berate.
(slang, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1.
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
An abstract large amount of something.
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
* Macaulay
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
* Holland
* Dryden
(UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
* ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450
To form a group, as for sports or work.
To convey or haul with a team.
As nouns the difference between ream and team
is that ream is ream (of paper) while team is team.ream
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reme, rem, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- a huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
Etymology 2
From (etyl) remen, rimen, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) reeme, from (etyl) raime, .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I can't go - I still have reams of work left.
Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, bundle, quireSee also
*Anagrams
* ----team
English
(wikipedia team)Etymology 1
From (etyl) teme, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team .
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- a team of ducklings about her
- a long team of snowy swans on high
- TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
Usage notes
* When referring to the actions of a sports team, British English typically uses the third-person plural form rather than the third-person singular. However, this is not done in other contexts such as in business or politics. ** **: Manchester were unable to bring the strong team they originally intended, ** **: Leeds were champions again.Descendants
* German: (l)Verb
(en verb)- They teamed to complete the project.
- to team lumber
- (Thoreau)
