sheaf en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ʃiːf/
- shēf
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”).
Meanings
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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.
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.
1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:'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.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 222:O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, These broken limbs again into one body.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], line 70:Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands
1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 60, lines 429–430:
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Any collection of things bound together.
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.
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:Bond reflected on the problem as he collected the sheaf of hundred thousand and then the sheaves of ten thousand franc notes.
1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 8: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.
1953, Robert A. Heinlein, Starman Jones, page 45:
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(collective) 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.
1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite:
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(collective) 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.
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:
- A sheave.
- 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: ▸ If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
- 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: ▸ 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sheafs | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| sheaves | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
capsheaf · indsheaf · sheaflike · sheafwise · sheafless · B-sheaf · sheaf theory · cosheaf · sheafify · structure sheaf · eigensheaf · sheafy · sheafification · wheatsheaf · subsheaf
Synonyms
bundle · reap · wheatsheaf
Translations (144)
mr पेंडी (bundle of grain or straw) · no nek (bundle of grain or straw) · mr पेंढी (bundle of grain or straw) · ka ძნა (bundle of grain or straw) · ca garba (bundle of grain or straw) · pt feixe (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · mk сноп (bundle of grain or straw) · it fascicolo (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ru сноп (bundle of grain or straw) · sk snop (bundle of grain or straw) · it fascio (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · koi кольта (bundle of grain or straw) · bg сноп (bundle of grain or straw) · nl bundel (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · wa djåbe (bundle of grain or straw) · el δεμάτι (bundle of grain or straw) · lv kūlis (bundle of grain or straw) · cs svazek (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · cy sypyn (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · cv кӗлте (bundle of grain or straw) · es atada (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · it frecce (bundle of grain or straw) · la manipulus (bundle of grain or straw) · kpv кольта (bundle of grain or straw) · eo garbo (bundle of grain or straw) · mi kākati (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · fa بسک (bundle of grain or straw) · it mazzo (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ru пучо́к (mathematical construct) · sq duaj (bundle of grain or straw) · la garba (bundle of grain or straw) · hy կապոց (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · fi lyhde (bundle of grain or straw) · ru пучо́к (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · cs snop (bundle of grain or straw) · it mazzo (bundle of grain or straw) · gl monllo (bundle of grain or straw) · it balla (bundle of grain or straw) · fi kupo (bundle of grain or straw) · fr gerbe (bundle of grain or straw) · ota باغ (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · it fascio (mathematical construct) · fi nippu (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · sh сноп (bundle of grain or straw) · grc δράγμα (bundle of grain or straw) · pt lio (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ota دمت (bundle of grain or straw) · sl snop (bundle of grain or straw) · pdt Goaw (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · da knippe (mathematical construct) · de Garbe (bundle of grain or straw) · ja 束 (bundle of grain or straw) · uk в'яза́нка (bundle of grain or straw) · el δέσμη (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · gl mollo (bundle of grain or straw) · mr भारा (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · pdt Goaw (bundle of grain or straw) · ota دمت (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · udm культо (bundle of grain or straw) · be вяза́нка (bundle of grain or straw) · dsb snop (bundle of grain or straw) · fa بافه (bundle of grain or straw) · it raccolta (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · bg връзка (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · sv bunt (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ko 층 (mathematical construct) · he אֲלֻמָּה (bundle of grain or straw) · cmn 捆 (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · cy ysgub (bundle of grain or straw) · sw mganda (bundle of grain or straw) · sv kärve (mathematical construct) · cmn 層 /层 (mathematical construct) · bg сноп (mathematical construct) · ca feix (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · sco stook (bundle of grain or straw) · ka კონა (bundle of grain or straw) · dlm falja (bundle of grain or straw) · es gavilla (bundle of grain or straw) · it fascio (bundle of grain or straw) · pt feixe (mathematical construct) · hy խուրձ (bundle of grain or straw) · sh snop (mathematical construct) · gl feixe (bundle of grain or straw) · es haz (bundle of grain or straw) · hy կապ (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · de Bündel (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · grc ἄμαλλα (bundle of grain or straw) · pl snop (bundle of grain or straw) · fr faisceau (mathematical construct) · ro mănunchi (bundle of grain or straw) · izh lyhe (bundle of grain or straw) · ltg snaps (bundle of grain or straw) · es atado (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ro fascicul (bundle of grain or straw) · cmn 束 (bundle of grain or straw) · ltg kiuļs (bundle of grain or straw) · fo bundi (bundle of grain or straw) · fr faisceau (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · gd sguab (bundle of grain or straw) · es mies (bundle of grain or straw) · fr liasse (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · de Garbe (mathematical construct) · mr भारा (bundle of grain or straw) · hu kéve (mathematical construct) · no knippe (mathematical construct) · izh vihko (bundle of grain or straw) · uk сніп (bundle of grain or straw) · ro legătură (bundle of grain or straw) · da neg (bundle of grain or straw) · es haz (mathematical construct) · ko 단 (bundle of grain or straw) · tr demet (bundle of grain or straw) · ru па́чка (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · la merges (bundle of grain or straw) · sh snop (bundle of grain or straw) · it mannello (bundle of grain or straw) · nl schoof (bundle of grain or straw) · pt gavela (bundle of grain or straw) · yi גאַרב (bundle of grain or straw) · sv kärve (bundle of grain or straw) · izh kupo (bundle of grain or straw) · hy կապուկ (bundle of grain or straw) · hy շալակ (bundle of grain or straw) · it covone (bundle of grain or straw) · es atada (bundle of grain or straw) · hy փաթեթ (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · ja 層 (mathematical construct) · sv sädeskärve (bundle of grain or straw) · nl schoof (mathematical construct) · pl snop (mathematical construct) · yi סנאָפּ (bundle of grain or straw) · hu kéve (bundle of grain or straw) · ar حُزْمَة (bundle of grain or straw) · be сноп (bundle of grain or straw) · ca feix (mathematical construct) · es atado (bundle of grain or straw) · gl gavela (bundle of grain or straw) · ru вяза́нка (bundle of grain or straw) · hy տրցակ (bundle of grain or straw) · ru свя́зка (any collection of things bound together; a bundle) · fi roivas (bundle of grain or straw) · fi lyhde (mathematical construct) · rup mãnuclju (bundle of grain or straw) · ga punann (bundle of grain or straw)