sheaf
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: sheaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheafs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sheafing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sheafed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sheafed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
pos: noun
examples: O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body.
And then in haste her bow'r she leaves,
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves;
Or if the earlier season lead
To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands
'Tis not very long since there were Dwarfs at Jüne near Göttingen, who used to go into the fields and steal the sheaves of corn.
gloss: Any collection of things bound together.
pos: noun
examples: a sheaf of paper
Max found himself accepting an impressive sheaf of money, more than he had ever touched before, and the books were taken from him before he could think of another objection.
Together the two men march up the aisle and mount the dais, and while Muspole shakes hands with the chairman and his lady, the major draws a sheaf of notes from a briefcase and lays them on the table.
gloss: A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
pos: noun
examples: The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.
gloss: A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A sheave.
pos: noun
gloss: An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U:
pos: noun
gloss: An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U:
pos: noun
gloss: To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sheaf wheat
gloss: To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.
Derived words: B-sheaf
capsheaf
cosheaf
eigensheaf
indsheaf
sheafification
sheafless
sheaflike
sheaf theory
sheafwise
sheafy
structure sheaf
subsheaf
wheatsheaf
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сноп
roman: snop
lang: Catalan
word: feix
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 層 /层
roman: céng
lang: Danish
word: knippe
lang: Dutch
word: schoof
lang: Finnish
word: lyhde
lang: French
word: faisceau
lang: German
word: Garbe
lang: Hungarian
word: kéve
lang: Italian
word: fascio
lang: Japanese
word: 層
roman: sō
lang: Korean
word: 층
roman: cheung
lang: Norwegian
word: knippe
lang: Portuguese
word: feixe
lang: Russian
word: пучо́к
roman: pučók
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: snop
lang: Spanish
word: haz
lang: Swedish
word: kärve