An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
QUIRE
quire
(noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
quire (plural quires)
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.
(bookbinding) 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.
Coordinate terms
• (quantity of paper): bale, bundle, ream
Verb
quire (third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)
(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
Etymology 2
Noun
quire (plural quires)
(archaic) A choir.
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
Verb
quire (third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)
(intransitive) To sing in concert.
Source: Wiktionary
Quire, n.
Definition: See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.
Quire, v. i.
Definition: To sing in concert. [R.] Shak.
Quire, n. Etym: [OE. quaer, quair, OF. quayer, cayer, caĂŻer, F. cahier, a book of loose sheets, a quarter of a quire, LL. quaternus, quaternum, sheets of paper packed together, properly, four together, fr. L. quaterni four each, by fours, quattuor, four. See Four and cf. Cahier.]
Definition: A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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