Reamed vs Beamed - What's the difference?
reamed | beamed |
(ream)
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.
(beam)
Furnished with beams or timbers.
Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.
* Sir Walter Scott
As verbs the difference between reamed and beamed
is that reamed is past tense of ream while beamed is past tense of beam.As an adjective beamed is
furnished with beams or timbers.reamed
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(head)Anagrams
*ream
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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
* ----beamed
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(head)Adjective
(-)- a beamed ceiling
- Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky.