Quire

Word QUIRE
Character 5
Hyphenation quire
Pronunciations /ˈkwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Quire"

What do we mean by quire?

A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream. noun

A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book. noun

A body of singers; a chorus. noun

The part of a church allotted to the choristers; the choir. noun

A company or assembly. noun

To sing in concert or chorus; chant or sing harmoniously.

To harmonize.

A set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded so as to make eight leaves: the ordinary unit of construction for early manuscripts and books. noun

A set of one of each of the sheets of a book laid in consecutive order, ready for folding. noun

A book. noun

Twenty-four sheets of paper; the twentieth part of a ream. noun

To nest within a once-folded outer sheet (one or more sheets of paper of the same size similarly folded); impose and print (separate pages of type) so that they can be properly outsetted or insetted in consecutive order.

To fold in quires, or with marks between quires.

An obsolete form of queer.

See choir. noun

To sing in concert. intransitive verb

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream. noun

A choir. noun

The architectural part of a church in which the choir resides, between the nave and the sanctuary. noun

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.

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.

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The word "quire" in example sentences

The quire is properly St Georges Chappel whose Rooff is very high and Carved very Curiously, all free stone, so is the rest of ye Church. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The rooff of the quire is very Curious, Carv'd stone and soe thinn to ye Leads one might grasp it between thumb and finger, and yet so well fixt as to be very strong. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The Lanthorn in ye quire is vastly high and delicately painted and fine Carv'd worke all of wood, in it the bells used to be hung, five, the dimention of ye biggest was so much when they rung them it shooke ye quire so and ye Carv'd worke that it was thought unsafe, therefore they were taken down. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Beyond the quire was the sanctuary that housed the tomb of the saint. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

There was a central door, which was called the quire door. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But the best thing about the quire is the wooden stall-work, of early decorated, very beautiful. ❋ Airy, George Biddell, Sir (1896)

In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife. ❋ Various (1852)

A chancellor of York, Thomas de Farnylaw, leaves books, bound and unbound, to the Vicar of Waghen; a volume of sermons and a "quire" to the church of Embleton; and a Bible and Concordance to be chained in the north porch of St. Nicholas 'Church, Newcastle, "for common use, for the good of the soul of his lord William of Middleton" (1378). ❋ Unknown (1911)

I was still trying to decipher the language (what the heck is a "quire"??) when it was followed quickly by: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unexpected truth in advertising this--for Home starts off by pulling quire after quire from his novel Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton and feeds them into an office shredder, all the while discoursing on how tired the gesture has become but what a way to turn a $10 paperback into a $1,000 art object. ❋ Paul McRandle (2011)

There's something quire bizarre about the Welsh Conservative Assembly group spending thousands of pounds of public money and staying in expensive hotels on a "fact finding" trip to Brussels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hard, I found, to hold back a tear, and the goose pimples were not from the cold because it was a hot day, even in the quire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The brilliant sunlight through the windows drenched the choir or "quire" as they call it, the 400-year old organ blasted Nimrod out to us and the tourists by the west door. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Only around half of the guests will sit in front of the quire, a partition that restricts the view of the altar to anyone behind it in the nave, giving it the feel of a large parish church. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They are quire content to go along with regulations and taxes that makes hiring an American unaffordable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anybody can have ideas -- the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. ❋ Patricia Benesh (2010)

Soy Hispano y detesto el Socialismo que Obama nos quire traer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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