different between sheaf vs agglomeration
sheaf
English
Etymology
From Middle English scheef, from Old English s??af, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”). Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic ???????????????????? (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?f, IPA(key): /?i?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Noun
sheaf (plural sheaves or sheafs)
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Synonym: reap
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act V, Scene III, line 70:
- O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / These broken limbs again into one body.
- c. 1697, John Dryden, “Georgic I”, in The Works of Virgil:
- E’en while the reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands
- Any collection of things bound together.
- Synonym: bundle
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:
- 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:
- (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.
Derived terms
- indsheaf
Translations
Verb
sheaf (third-person singular simple present sheafs, present participle sheafing, simple past and past participle sheafed)
- (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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene II, line 107:
- They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene II, line 107:
Anagrams
- SHAEF, Shefa
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agglomeration
English
Etymology
From agglomerate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
agglomeration (countable and uncountable, plural agglomerations)
- The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
- State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
- (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
- (geology) a mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.
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