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  • Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires or bales, there are ISO and DIN standards...
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    stationery PC LOAD LETTER Paper density Photo print sizes Tiled printing Toilet paper § Sheet size Units of paper quantity – ream, quire etc. Belize, Canada...
    101 KB (7,909 words) - 12:26, 28 May 2024
  • Choir (disambiguation) (redirect from Quire)
    spelled quire) A level in the hierarchy of angels Choir, Mongolia, a city in Mongolia "Choir" (song), a song by Guy Sebastian Paper quire, a quantity of usually...
    1,014 bytes (172 words) - 11:37, 19 July 2023
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    Codex (section Forming quire)
    century, paper was expensive, and its use may mark off the deluxe copy. The structure of a codex includes its size, format/ordinatio(its quires or gatherings)...
    32 KB (3,917 words) - 15:37, 30 May 2024
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    boy. "Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy-- bu-u-uy!" cries the butcher. "Half-quire of paper for a penny," bellows the street stationer. "An 'aypenny a lot ing-uns...
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    at one end of a piece of wood on applying our ear to the other. Immediately, on this suggestion, I rolled a quire of paper into a kind of cylinder and...
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  • Use value (category Theory of value (economics))
    for example, a bushel of wheat, a quire of paper, a yard of linen. Whatever its social form may be, wealth always consists of use-values, which in the...
    26 KB (3,743 words) - 19:40, 19 March 2024
  • quire of paper, five dollars for ten cents' worth of flax thread, six dollars for pins, and forty dollars for a bunch of factory thread. — Journal of...
    58 KB (8,238 words) - 05:27, 3 June 2024
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    a boy. "Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy– bu-u-uy!" cries the butcher. "Half-quire of paper for a penny," bellows the street stationer. "An 'aypenny a lot ing-uns...
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    Abu Nuwas (category Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate)
    book-cover containing a quire of paper, in which was a collection of rare expressions and grammatical observations." The spirit of a new age was reflected...
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    Vellum (redirect from Vellum paper)
    formed of a group of several sheets. Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham point out, in their Introduction to Manuscript Studies, that "the quire was the...
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    pens, and pen stand. A quire of paper for writing. Red wax. A water jug. Salt cellar. Knives. Spoons. Forks [...]. The Mass of the Holy Spirit (celebrated...
    24 KB (2,039 words) - 18:07, 11 February 2024
  • over about a quire of paper, which I believe is now in my trunk, at John Elliott's, which I was ever a good deal doubtful whether some parts of it were not...
    9 KB (1,127 words) - 19:08, 24 September 2023
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    is preserved in the modern Italian meaning of quire: quinterno di carta. When bookbinders started using paper, it became possible to easily stitch five...
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  • National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality Official website OECD paper citing the use of enquire as a "sophisticated project management tool"....
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    Notebook (redirect from Notebook paper)
    decided that the cumbersome method of selling writing paper in folded stacks of "quires" (four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves)...
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  • contemporary of other printers of the time, which included Laurens Janszoon Coster, Jean Brito and Panfilo Castaldi. In 2015 two Hebrew-letter quires with a...
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    Bookbinding (category Paper art)
    books were mostly written on papyrus, and while many are single-quire, a few are multi-quire. Codices were a significant improvement over papyrus or vellum...
    63 KB (8,159 words) - 08:16, 26 May 2024
  • Quill & Quire is a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry. The magazine was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies...
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    the cost of printing books and other documents in Europe, particularly for shorter print runs. A finding in 2015 brought evidence of quires as claimed...
    55 KB (6,556 words) - 22:43, 4 May 2024
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