What's the difference between reak and ream?

Reak


Definition:

  • (n.) A rush.
  • (n.) A prank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, head of professional standards at West Mercia and Warwickshire, told MPs he had concluded that all three officers should face misconduct proceedings.
  • (2) The committee said it was perturbed to find no formal minutes or detailed notes of a briefing during which Reakes-Williams discussed his findings with senior officers.
  • (3) But Reakes-Williams told MPs his conclusions that misconduct hearings were necessary were overruled after a meeting in August with three deputy chiefs from the three forces – which was not minuted.
  • (4) Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, head of professional standards at Warwickshire and West Mercia police, who led an inquiry into the October 2012 meeting between Mitchell and the federation officials, said he believed that officers should face misconduct charges.
  • (5) The company, run by a former Goldman Sachs banker, was awarded management of Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire last week in a ground-reaking move lauded by ministers as a "good deal for patients and staff".
  • (6) Shaw told MPs he had the power to decide to discipline his own officer himself – as have the other two chief constables involved -but had decided to refer the investigation and Reakes-Williams findings to Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary to be referred to another chief constable to review.

Ream


Definition:

  • (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
  • (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
  • (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
  • (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
  • (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
  • (2) The disturbance without reaming was limited to the inner layer of the cortex and involved only one-third of the cortical cross-section.
  • (3) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
  • (4) In 10 dogs, closed intramedullary nailing with reaming was performed while compartment pressures were measured.
  • (5) Errors in surgical judgment were attributed to inadequate preoperative analysis of the pattern of the fracture; undetected intraoperative comminution during reaming or insertion of the nail, or both; or postoperative failure to recognize an increase in comminution and instability of the fracture.
  • (6) Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs.
  • (7) Forty comminuted or unstable fractures of the femoral shaft were treated by closed intramedullary reaming and locked nailing.
  • (8) The process of reaming causes circulatory disturbances in the inner two-thirds of the diaphyseal cortex.
  • (9) The femoral nailing procedure with reaming in multiple trauma patients involves a potential risk to the lung.
  • (10) Care must be taken at surgery to ream sufficiently and obtain proper cup fit and position.
  • (11) The bone remodeling consisted of endosteal surface bone resorption and periosteal surface bone deposition, most likely due to a loss of structural support from the reamed medullary canal.
  • (12) The line-to-line reamed group showed significantly greater motion than both underreamed groups for all micromotion parameters.
  • (13) Two gross surgical implantation techniques, one involving reaming out the intramural portion of the uterine tube and the other dissecting it out via a transfundal incision, are compared with microsurgical uterotubal anastomosis.
  • (14) While it’s suffered setbacks, Uber has a huge competitive advantage in the market: it owns reams of smart data on traffic flows that will be critical to developing the technology.
  • (15) Mechanical tests showed that the greatest stability was achieved when the prosthetic cup was completely intruded, when all articular cartilage was removed and the socket was reamed, and when anchoring holes for cement were devised.
  • (16) Restricted reaming, brushing and lavage to remove debris, use of high-viscosity cement, and pressurization of the cement are of paramount importance.
  • (17) We conclude that bone healing is delayed by medullary reaming, whereas the pattern of healing is similar in bones with and without reaming.
  • (18) I assimilate reams of paper and electronic notes, scores of blood tests, x-rays and scans, and the current physiological status of the patients.
  • (19) Nailing was performed either primarily or secondarily and reaming was performed in most cases.
  • (20) Intramedullary reaming caused marked reductions in systemic and pulmonary artery blood pressure.