sheaf
IPA: ʃˈif
noun
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- (mechanical) A sheave.
- (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
verb
- (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
- (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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Examples of "sheaf" in Sentences
- She got the sheaf of roses.
- He pulled out another sheaf of papers.
- Learn to make a decorative wheat sheaf
- It is to offer a sheaf of the first barley on the second day.
- The datum of the space and the sheaf is called an affine scheme.
- Over the window in the attic is the sheaf from the Grosvenor arms.
- The sheaf of wheat symbolizes the Maelor's agricultural background.
- Then the sheaf axioms can be expressed as the exactness of the sequence.
- The crane held a sheaf of rice in its beak and presented it to the princess.
- A sheaf is a bunch of cut stocks of grain bound together with twine or straw.
- Without referring to the sheaf of papers and folders on his lap, Carmine commenced.
- Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet.
- At Chambéry the last sheaf is called the sheaf of the Young Ox, and a race takes place to it in which all the reapers join.
- At Chambéry the last sheaf is called the sheaf of the Young Ox, and a race takes place to it in which all the reapers join.
- (Plus we still recall the sheaf of transparencies that showed each layer of the human body that could be laid one over the other.)
- Sometimes he prefers good people to places of trust and honour (v. 7): With kings are they on the throne, and every sheaf is made to bow to theirs.
- Section 33.9 is six pages of Penrose trying to explain "sheaf cohomology" whose ideas "… are fairly sophisticated mathematically, but actually very natural."
- 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
- At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called "the Mother of the Rice" (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowl's liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it.
- At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called the Mother of the Rice (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowls liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it.
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