"quire" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "53 45 2",
      "sense": "quantity of paper",
      "word": "bale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "53 45 2",
      "sense": "quantity of paper",
      "word": "bundle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "53 45 2",
      "sense": "quantity of paper",
      "word": "ream"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "der"
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        "4": "",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quires",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "21 31 4 5 26 7 7",
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        {
          "ref": "1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 592",
          "text": "Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, paperback edition, Penguin Books, page 71",
          "text": "[…] and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jason Glenn, Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 140",
          "text": "We saw above that the fourth quire consists of ten folios, two of which (folios 29 and 31) Richer added to a quaternion (folios 23 to 28, 30, 32). Most of the folios Richer added to his manuscript supplement, elaborate, or amend text that he had already composed in the codex. In this quire, however, Richer wrote around the added folios as if it was the quire he added to them, not the converse. Indeed, if we were to remove folios 29 and 31, there would be neither grammatical nor narrative continuity between the original folios of the quire which would face each other, that is, between folios 28 and 30 on the one hand, or folios 30ᵛ and 32ʳ on the other.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        [
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          "ream"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mà"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "boek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "word": "kirja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cahier"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "dasṭa",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "word": "დასტა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "destʹ",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "десть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "one-twentieth of a ream",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "côr"
        }
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "leave",
          "leave"
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          "stitch",
          "stitch"
        ],
        [
          "signature",
          "signature"
        ],
        [
          "nest",
          "nest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "bookbinding",
        "crafts",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kola",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кола"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "plec"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cahier"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "tetrádio",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "τετράδιο"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "word": "caderno"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 93 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tetradʹ",
          "sense": "set of leaves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "тетрадь"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "A book, poem, or pamphlet."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈkwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "homophone": "choir"
    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Paper quire"
  ],
  "word": "quire"
}

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    {
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "participle",
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        {
          "ref": "1870, William White, Notes and Queries, volume 42",
          "text": "Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books, number 3",
          "text": "This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Alfred William Pollard, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays",
          "text": "By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper."
      ],
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        "(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈkwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/",
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        "UK"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
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      "homophone": "choir"
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  ],
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          "text": "1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum\nYea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]"
        }
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        "(archaic) A choir."
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        "One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse."
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        {
          "ref": "1920, T. S. Eliot, “Hippopotamus”, in Poems",
          "text": "I saw the 'potamus take wing / Ascending from the damp savannas, / And quiring angels round him sing / The praise of God, in loud hosannas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, William Faulkner, Barn Burning",
          "text": "He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night.",
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        "To sing in concert."
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        "(intransitive, poetic) To sing in concert."
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        {
          "word": "quire ken"
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    "English verbs",
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    "Rhymes:English/aɪə(ɹ)/1 syllable"
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    {
      "sense": "quantity of paper",
      "word": "bale"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quantity of paper",
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    {
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