Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- (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.
- Archaic spelling of choir.
- A book, poem, or pamphlet.
Verbi
- (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
- (poetic) Alternative spelling of choir (“to sing in concert”).
Esimerkit
- Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires.
- […] and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre.
- Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.
- This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.
- By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.
- 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.
- Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire [...]
- He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night.
- Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortal souls; / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
- Collect all quires in order and bind them together.
Taivutusmuodot
Archaic spelling of choir.
The placement of the choir within a large Latin cross church
Archaic spelling of choir.
The choir of Bristol Cathedral, with the nave seen through the chancel screen, so looking west
Archaic spelling of choir.
The Quire in Palencia Cathedral in northern Spain, an example of a monastic quire