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quired, quir′ingArchaic choir
quire
quire a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock, the twentieth part of a ream
Origin of quire
Middle English quair from Old French quaer, book of loose pages from Vulgar Latin quaternum, paper packed in lots of four pages from Classical Latin quaterni, four each: see quaternaryWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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quire
noun
- A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.
- A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.
Origin of quire
Middle English quayer four double sheets of paper from Old French quaer from Vulgar Latin quaternus from Latin quaternī set of four, four each from quater four times ; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural quires)
- 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.
- (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.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)
- (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
Origin
From Anglo-Norman quier, from Old French quaier, from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaterni (“four at a time"), from quater (“four times")
Noun
(plural quires)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)
- (intransitive) To sing in concert.
Origin
Older spelling of choir.
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