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.

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