Meaning of "short ream" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SHORT REAM

short ream  [ʃɔːt riːm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHORT REAM

Short ream is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHORT REAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Units of paper quantity

Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires and bales, there are ISO and DIN standards for the ream. Expressions used here include U.S. Customary units.

Definition of short ream in the English dictionary

The definition of short ream in the dictionary is 480 sheets of paper.

TRANSLATION OF SHORT REAM

Find out the translation of short ream to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of short ream from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «short ream» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 总之令
• Translator English - Spanish: corto resma
• English: short ream
• Translator English - Hindi: कम बीस जिस्ता
• Translator English - Arabic: ماعون قصيرة
• Translator English - Russian: короткая полосный
• Translator English - Portuguese: curto resma
• Translator English - Bengali: ছোট রিম
• Translator English - French: courte rame
• Translator English - Malay: Rim pendek
• Translator English - German: kurz Ries
• Translator English - Japanese: 短い連
• Translator English - Korean: 짧은 연
• Translator English - Javanese: Ream singkat
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ram ngắn
• Translator English - Tamil: குறுகிய ரேம்
• Translator English - Marathi: लहान रीम
• Translator English - Turkish: Kısa rezerv
• Translator English - Italian: breve risma
• Translator English - Polish: krótki ryz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: коротка смуговий
• Translator English - Romanian: top scurt
• Translator English - Greek: μικρή δεσμίδα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kort riem
• Translator English - Swedish: kort ream
• Translator English - Norwegian: kort pakke

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHORT REAM»

Discover the use of short ream in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to short ream and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Book Production

There is also a 480-sheet ream, known as a short ream. The spoilage allowance varies from job to job according to: type of printing – sheet- or web-fed length of print run number of colours the type of binding paper weight and finish additional  ...

Adrian Bullock, 2012

Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book: A ...

... wrapping papers andblotting paper, are recognized. A ream of handmadeand drawing papersmay contain 472, 480 or500sheets. Originally a ream contained 516 sheets.A'short ream' has 480 sheets, a 'long ream' 500 or 516 sheets.

Ray Prytherch, 2012

The Mathematics Dictionary

... PAPER MEASVRE ' quire • quire of outsides • printer's quire • ream • printer's ream • bundle • printers' bundle • bale 1 roll of parchment 480 sheets = 1 short ream 500 sheets = 1 long ream TIME 60 seconds - 1 minute 60 minutes = 1 hour 24 ...

R.C. James, 1992

Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to ...

Today's ream may consist of 472, 480 (short ream), 500 or 516 (long ream), or 526 sheets. ITALY The first Italian mill seems to have been established in Fabriano by the 1270s. A popular account related that one Erardo de Praga, fleeing from ...

Leila Avrin, 2010

The Business Guide: An Outline of Business

20 Quires or 480 properly constitute a Beam (short ream) but now often to the trade 800 sheets are figured to a Beam (long ream). A Printer's . contains 21% auires or 616 sheet*, the surplus to make up for waste. V. 8, Straw Table EdBlTaleati ...

J. L. Nichols, 2005

Chabers 21st Century Dictionary

... 20 quires, formerly 480 (a short ream), now usually 500 (a long ream) or 516 (a printer's ream). 2 (reams) colloq a large quantity, especially of paper or writing □ wrote reams. © 14c: from French reame, from Arabic nzmah bale. ream2 /ri:m/ ...

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Construction Calculations Manual

10 reams 1 bale Weight of Water Paper 24 sheets 1 quire 20 quires 1 short ream 480 sheets 500 sheets 1 ream By permission: Fante's Kitchen Wares Shop, Philadelphia, PA-www.fantes.com Construction Calculations Manual 76 Calculations ...

Sidney M Levy, 2011

Style-book of business English, designed for use in business ...

A short ream has 480 sheets, a long ream 500 or more ; a printer's ream contains 2i J quires (5i6 sheets), the surplus to make up for waste. rebate. Term used by bankers and others for an allowance made by them to parties taking up bills of ...

H. W. Hammond, 1811

The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India ...

Loughnan and Co. in the commission on the first loan is a fact which _ I have never denied, and of which I have no reason to be ashamed :" in short, (ream confitentem babe-mus .' It is true, Mr. Bowring never, to our knowledge, denied this fact; ...

‎1826

Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays

... individual effort; that they need combination of effort - in short, ream work; that for such work equipment and appatatus ate needed, and these in turn need organization and involve incteased cost. If you admit that these organized measures ...

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter, 1993