sheaf
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sheaf
- /ʃiːf/
Rhymes with -iːf
Where it comes from
From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).
Cognates
Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”).
noun sheaves · sheafs
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A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body.
Similar: reap, wheatsheaf
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Any collection of things bound together.
a sheaf of paper
Similar: bundle
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows.
- A sheave.
- If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
- Given a family of sections s_i∈ℱ(U_i) such that all pairs (s_i,s_j) agree under restriction to U_i∩U_j, there is a (unique) section s over U whose restriction to U_i is s_i.
verb sheafs · sheafing · sheafed
- To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves to sheaf wheat
- To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.
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noun mathematical construct
| Español | haz |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 층 cheung |
| 日本語 | 層 sō |
| 中文 | 層 /层 céng |
| Português | feixe |
| Français | faisceau |
| Deutsch | Garbe |
| Italiano | fascio |
| Русский | пучо́к pučók |
noun bundle of grain or straw
| Español | haz, atado, atada, mies, gavilla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 단 dan |
| 日本語 | 束 taba |
| 中文 | 束 shù |
| Kiswahili | mganda |
| Português | gavela |
| Français | gerbe |
| Deutsch | Garbe |
| Italiano | covone, fascio, mazzo, balla, mannello, frecce |
| Ελληνικά | δεμάτι demáti |
| Română | mănunchi, fascicul, legătură |
| Русский | сноп snop, вяза́нка vjazánka |
| العربية | حُزْمَة ḥuzma |
| עברית | אֲלֻמָּה alumá |
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title = {sheaf},
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