a ream of paper
81Uranium mining in the United States — declined drastically in the 1980s, but has revived since 2001 due to higher uranium prices. The average spot price of uranium oxide (U3O8) increased from $7.92 per pound in 2001 to $39.48 per pound in 2006. [Department of Energy s [http://www.eia …
82The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger —   …
83reams of sth — ► a very large amount of information, usually on paper: »Accountants at the firm were asked to turn over reams of financial records as part of the investigation. »reams of paperwork/paper »reams of information/data/material Main Entry: ↑ream …
84Book — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Book >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 booklet booklet Sgm: N 1 writing writing work volume tome opuscule Sgm: N 1 tract tract tractate Sgm: N 1 livret livret …
85measure and measurement — See angstrom, Centigrade, centiliter, centimeter, circumference, cubic, diameter, dimension, direction, foot, gauge, gram, hardness, horology, iconometer, inch, kilogram, liter, meter, metric system, mil, milliliter, millimeter, paper, pi,… …
86quire — [kwʌɪə] noun 1》 four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts. 2》 any collection of leaves one within another in a manuscript or book. 3》 25 (formerly 24) sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream.… …
87pad — / padding [n1] protection buffer, cushion, filling, packing, stuffing, wad, wadding, waste; concepts 473,475 pad [n2] tablet of paper block, jotter, memorandum, notebook, notepad, paper, parchment, quire, ream, scratch, scratch pad, slips;… …
88padding — pad / padding [n1] protection buffer, cushion, filling, packing, stuffing, wad, wadding, waste; concepts 473,475 pad [n2] tablet of paper block, jotter, memorandum, notebook, notepad, paper, parchment, quire, ream, scratch, scratch pad, slips;… …
89basis weight — a unit used in the paper industry to express the weight (really, the thickness) of paper. The basis weight is the weight in pounds of one ream (500 sheets) of a basic size sheet. For details, see pound weight …
90quire — (qr) a traditional unit of quantity used for counting sheets of paper. The word is from Latin, meaning by fours. A quire was originally comprised of 24 sheets cut from four of the large sheets produced by the paper maker. In modern use a quire …
