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As nouns the difference between signature and quire

is that signature is a person’s name, written by that person, used to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract 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.

As an adjective signature

is distinctive, characteristic indicative of identity.

As a verb quire is

to prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

signature

English

(wikipedia signature)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A ’s name, written by that person, used to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature , however, that was different.
  • The act of signing one's name.
  • (lb) That part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
  • (lb) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo
  • (lb) A group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, become a section of a book
  • (lb) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
  • (lb) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
  • A mark or sign of implication.
  • *(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
  • *:the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls in their first origin are supposed to be stamped with
  • *1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • *:A “signature'” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.
  • (lb) A
  • A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.

    • See also

    * autograph

    Adjective

    (en-adj) (unusually not comparable)
  • distinctive, characteristic indicative of identity
  • * 2001 , Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions
    • Consider Las Fallas'' of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature''' of ' signature ephemera.
  • * 2005 , Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition
    • Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive ...
  • * 2005 , Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini
    • But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, ...
    Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
  • * 2005:' CBS News website, ''Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82'', read at on 14 May 2006 - The inspiration for [[w:Tigger, Tigger]’s ' signature phrase: TTFN, ta-ta for now.
    • The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
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    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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