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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires.”

2. isim 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.
3. isim A book, poem, or pamphlet.
4. fiil To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

   “Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.”

5. isim Uncommon form of choir (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).
6. isim Archaic spelling of choir (“group of people who sing together”).

   “Madam, myself have lim'd a bush for her, And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds, That she will light to listen to the lays, And never mount to trouble you again.”

7. fiil Poetic spelling of choir (“to sing in concert”).

   “I saw the 'potamus take wing / Ascending from the damp savannas, / And quiring angels round him sing / The praise of God, in loud hosannas.”