ream

ream is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
2. intransitive verb. To cream; to mantle.
3. transitive verb. To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
4. noun. A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
5. transitive verb. To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
6. noun. a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
7. noun. a large quantity of written matter

   "he wrote reams and reams"

8. verb. enlarge with a reamer

   "ream a hole"

9. verb. remove by making a hole or by boring

   "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"

10. verb. squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer

    "ream oranges"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ream:

erma, mare, mear, rame

Common word forms

reams, reamed, reamer, reaming

Words from these letters

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