Etymology From Middle English rem, reme, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Room (“cream”), West Frisian rjemme (“cream”), Dutch room (“cream”), German Low German Rahm, Rohm (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Swedish römme (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Faroese rómi (“cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.
Etymology From Middle English rem, reme, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Room (“cream”), West Frisian rjemme (“cream”), Dutch room (“cream”), German Low German Rahm, Rohm (“cream”), German Rahm (“cream”), Swedish römme (“cream”), Norwegian rømme (“sour cream”), Faroese rómi (“cream”), Icelandic rjómi (“cream”). See also ramekin.
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ream
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Etymology Etymology uncertain, possibly a variant of rime (etymology 4) with the East Anglian and Kentish development of Old English /yː/ to /eː/ (the modern spelling would thus be unetymologically for *reem). Doublet of room. Cognates * Dutch ruimen (“to empty, evacuate”) * German räumen (“to make room”) * Icelandic rýma (“to make room, clear”).
1
To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
2
To remove (material) by reaming.
3
To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
4
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
5
Broadly, Slang, Vulgar To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
Etymology From Middle English reme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”) (French rame), from Catalan raima (“ream”), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).
› A bundle, package, or quantity of paper…
1
LawBroadly, Figuratively, In plural An extremely large quantity of documents, data, or information that supports a claim, investigation, or case.
The accountants requested reams of financial records.
2
Broadly, In plural An abstract large amount of something.
I can't go – I still have reams of work left.
A large language model (LLM), the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, is a type of neural network, a computer program different from typical software. By feeding it reams of data, engineers train the models to spot patterns and predict what “tokens,” or fragments of words, should come next in a given sequence.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow, Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time: