sheaf
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound togetherA quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
» The sun rose bright and shone upon the sheaf of oats, and the twittering birds surrounded the pole.
Meaning
7 sensesA quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Garbe
снопsnop, вяза́нкаvjazánka
сніпsnip, в'яза́нкаvʺjazánka
Any collection of things bound together.
a sheaf of paper
Bündel
свя́зкаsvjázka, па́чкаpáčka, пучо́кpučók
a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
(collective)A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
(collective)A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
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.
Garbe
пучо́кpučók
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.
Examples
3 sentencesThe sun rose bright and shone upon the sheaf of oats, and the twittering birds surrounded the pole.
Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.
deAnne kam mit einem Bündel Narzissen in den Händen aus dem duftenden Zwielicht des Obstgartens hervor.
And no one ever knew a Battle Sheaf to be among the last load at a Harvest Home.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, fromFrom Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).
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Forms
plural: sheaves / sheafsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing:bundle