sheaf

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

   “O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, These broken limbs again into one body.”

2. isim Any collection of things bound together.

   “a sheaf of paper”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A sheave.
6. isim If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
7. isim 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.
8. fiil To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

   “to sheaf wheat”

9. fiil To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

   “They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.”