quire
pronunciation
How to pronounce quire in British English:
UK [ˈkwaɪə(r)]
How to pronounce quire in American English:
US ['kwaɪər]
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- Noun:
- a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
Word Origin
- quire
- quire: see quarter
- quire (n.1)
- c. 1200, "set of four folded pages for a book; pamphlet consisting of a single quire," from Anglo-French quier, Old French quaier "sheet of paper folded in four," from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaterni "four each," from quater "four times." Meaning "standard unit for selling paper" first recorded late 14c. In quires (late 15c.) means "unbound."
- quire (n.2)
- early form and later variant spelling of choir (q.v.).
Example
- 1. Quire the ability to relax completely in any situation .
- 2. They felt quire exhausted when they got to the mountaintop .
- 3. Climbing up in the south quire to look at the traceries originally , he had found them heavily fissured , like all durham 's ancient sandstone .
- 4. The quire blocks the view of the people in the nave so large plasma screens will be erected to enable them to see the wedding ceremony .
- 5. We do not go into these generals with the idea of getting the last nickel , but are usually quire content selling out at some intermediate level between our purchase price and what we regard as fair value to a private owner .