What's the difference between ream and reim?

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.

Reim


Definition:

  • (n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three cases of meningiomas originated in the optic nerve sheath in its intra-canalicular portion, have been operated on in Reims since we dispose of the TDM; it gave us the opportunity to re-define the way how to explore an area always difficult to investigate; indeed it has been impossible for a long time to clearly isolate meningiomas in the optic canal through the classical neuro-radiologic technics.
  • (2) He united the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and an outstanding roster of international singers in Rossini's effervescent but then-neglected Il Viaggio a Reims at the 1985 Pesaro festival; the resultant recording proved a bestseller and remains a desert-island set for many opera lovers.
  • (3) And that was one of the things that I’ve always dreamt of doing.” – Rennes winger Paul-Georges Ntep after scoring a goal against Reims that saw him round the goalkeeper before getting on his hands and knees and heading the ball over the line “I’ve used up all my credits.
  • (4) Surveillance of one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Saïd Kouachi, had been lifted when he moved house from Paris to the north-eastern city of Reims.
  • (5) We therefore conducted a prospective study in the urban population of Reims.
  • (6) A good place to see this is at the Ruinart champagne house on the outskirts of Reims.
  • (7) France was bracing itself for a two-year high in electricity consumption as temperatures plunged to -20C in Reims and Mulhouse.
  • (8) The club deserves better than this season.” Michy Batshuayi’s 24th-minute goal was enough to beat Angers, taking Marseille up to 13th, eight points clear of 18th-placed Stade de Reims.
  • (9) Driving around here – Reims, Epernay, and the surrounding villages – is like driving round the inside of the locked cabinet at the off licence.
  • (10) This original technique was developed by D. Ploton at the CHU de Reims.
  • (11) The authors report the different types of mutilating surgery: evisceration, enucleation and exenteration, realized at Reims C.H.R., between 1983 and 1988.
  • (12) Return rail fares from London to Reims start at £79 with Rail Europe (0844 848 4070, raileurope.co.uk ).
  • (13) 36 patients consecutively admitted in medical and surgical wards of Reims' University Hospital, and referred to the Psychiatric Emergency Unit, were assessed for their psychiatric morbidity (DMS-III-R, axis I) and their psychiatric dangerousness.
  • (14) The population of Reims Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Unit is described for the years 1989 and 1975-76.
  • (15) While Roberge returned to his native France for a season-long loan at Ligue 1 Reims, Modibo, formerly of Lazio, had his contract cancelled.
  • (16) Starting from a collection of 67 cases of hanging taken over by the Anesthesia Resuscitation Department belonging to Reims Hospital University Centre, the authors report their clinical observations and make an analytical confrontation of this type of accident according to various criteria such as: - the initial physical condition of the victims; - the evolution of the symptoms; - the various medical treatments used.
  • (17) Originally from Mértola in south-east Portugal, Manuel Colaço Dias was 18 when he moved with his parents to Reims, north-east France, to escape the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.

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