quire
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
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.
- 2.
(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.
- 3.
A book, poem, or pamphlet.
- 4.
(form of, uncommon)(architecture) Uncommon form of choir (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).
- 5.
(alt of, archaic)Archaic spelling of choir (“group of people who sing together”).
1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]
Động từ
verb- 1.
(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
- 2.
Poetic spelling of choir (“to sing in concert”).
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From Middle English quayer, from quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (fourfold), from quater (four times). cahier.