quire

suomi-englanti sanakirja

quire englannista suomeksi

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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{{quote-text|en|year=1929|author=Virginia Woolf|title=A Room of One's Own|A Room of One’s Own|edition=paperback|page=71|publisher=Penguin Books
(quote-book)
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.
To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
{{quote-text|en|year=1870|author=William White|title=Notes and Queries|volume=42
{{quote-text|en|year=1938|title=The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books|issue=3
{{quote-text|en|year=1976|author=Alfred William Pollard|title=Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays
A choir.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
1597–1598, (w), ''Virgidemiarum''

Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire (..)

One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
To sing in concert.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)
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{{quote-text|en|year=1938|author=William Faulkner|title=Barn Burning
(inflection of)