Reamed vs Roamed - What's the difference?
reamed | roamed |
(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.
(roam)
To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
To or wander over.
* (John Milton)
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As verbs the difference between reamed and roamed
is that reamed is (ream) while roamed is (roam).reamed
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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
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* ----roamed
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*roam
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(en verb)- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam . Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}