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The word "page" comes from the Latin term pagina, which means, "a written page, leaf, sheet", [2] which in turn comes from an earlier meaning "to create a row of vines that form a rectangle". [3] The Latin word pagina derives from the verb pangere , which means to stake out boundaries when planting vineyards.
A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1 ⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams.
The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are Quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...
The second numeral stands for the number of pages: 1 for 10 pages; 2 for 20 pages; 4 for 40 pages; 6 for 60 pages; 8 for 80 pages; The third numeral stands for the ruling: 0 for blank exercise book; 1 for lined paper—lines at 20 mm; 2 for lined paper—lines at 16 mm; 3 for lined paper—lines at 12 mm; 4 for lined paper—lines at 8 mm
A man having his hair cut leapt out of the barber's chair and ran to help a police officer who was being wrestled to the ground in a headlock.
An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full sheet, would have height 240 mm (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)— 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 —and width 160 mm (6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in)— 1 ⁄ 4 in × 25. The sizes of books of the same format will differ in proportion to the full sheets used to print them.
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