ream

noun

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
2. (broadly, figuratively, in-plural)A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

   “The accountants requested reams of financial records.”

3. (broadly, in-plural)A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

   “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.”

verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)To cream; mantle; foam; froth.

   “a huge pewter measuring pot […] which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret”

2. (transitive)To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
3. (transitive)To remove (material) by reaming.
4. (transitive)To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
5. To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
6. (broadly, slang, vulgar)To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
7. (slang)To yell at or berate.

name

1. A surname.