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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
J. K. Rowling

Meaning of "sheaf" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHEAF

Old English sceaf, related to Old High German skoub sheaf, Old Norse skauf tail, Gothic skuft tuft of hair.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SHEAF

sheaf  [ʃiːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHEAF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sheaf is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sheaf in English.

WHAT DOES SHEAF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sheaf in the English dictionary

The first definition of sheaf in the dictionary is a bundle of reaped but unthreshed corn tied with one or two bonds. Other definition of sheaf is a bundle of objects tied together. Sheaf is also the arrows contained in a quiver.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHEAF

PRESENT

Present
I sheaf
you sheaf
he/she/it sheafs
we sheaf
you sheaf
they sheaf
Present continuous
I am sheafing
you are sheafing
he/she/it is sheafing
we are sheafing
you are sheafing
they are sheafing
Present perfect
I have sheafed
you have sheafed
he/she/it has sheafed
we have sheafed
you have sheafed
they have sheafed
Present perfect continuous
I have been sheafing
you have been sheafing
he/she/it has been sheafing
we have been sheafing
you have been sheafing
they have been sheafing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I sheafed
you sheafed
he/she/it sheafed
we sheafed
you sheafed
they sheafed
Past continuous
I was sheafing
you were sheafing
he/she/it was sheafing
we were sheafing
you were sheafing
they were sheafing
Past perfect
I had sheafed
you had sheafed
he/she/it had sheafed
we had sheafed
you had sheafed
they had sheafed
Past perfect continuous
I had been sheafing
you had been sheafing
he/she/it had been sheafing
we had been sheafing
you had been sheafing
they had been sheafing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will sheaf
you will sheaf
he/she/it will sheaf
we will sheaf
you will sheaf
they will sheaf
Future continuous
I will be sheafing
you will be sheafing
he/she/it will be sheafing
we will be sheafing
you will be sheafing
they will be sheafing
Future perfect
I will have sheafed
you will have sheafed
he/she/it will have sheafed
we will have sheafed
you will have sheafed
they will have sheafed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been sheafing
you will have been sheafing
he/she/it will have been sheafing
we will have been sheafing
you will have been sheafing
they will have been sheafing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would sheaf
you would sheaf
he/she/it would sheaf
we would sheaf
you would sheaf
they would sheaf
Conditional continuous
I would be sheafing
you would be sheafing
he/she/it would be sheafing
we would be sheafing
you would be sheafing
they would be sheafing
Conditional perfect
I would have sheaf
you would have sheaf
he/she/it would have sheaf
we would have sheaf
you would have sheaf
they would have sheaf
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been sheafing
you would have been sheafing
he/she/it would have been sheafing
we would have been sheafing
you would have been sheafing
they would have been sheafing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you sheaf
we let´s sheaf
you sheaf
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to sheaf
Past participle
sheafed
Present Participle
sheafing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHEAF


beef
biːf
belief
bɪˈliːf
brief
briːf
chief
tʃiːf
disbelief
ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf
editor-in-chief
ˌɛdɪtəʳɪntˈʃiːf
grief
ɡriːf
leaf
liːf
lief
liːf
massif
ˈmæsiːf
motif
məʊˈtiːf
reef
riːf
reif
riːf
relief
rɪˈliːf
sharif
ʃæˈriːf
sif
siːf
sportif
spɔːˈtiːf
Tenerife
ˌtɛnəˈriːf
thief
θiːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHEAF

shea
shea butter
sheading
sheaflike
sheafy
sheal
shear
shear pin
shear strength
shear stress
shear stud
shearer
shearing
shearing gang
shearing shed
shearleg
shearlegs
shearling
shearman
shears

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHEAF

bay leaf
broadleaf
cloverleaf
deaf
drop-leaf
flyleaf
gold leaf
in leaf
loose-leaf
Maple Leaf
oak leaf
overleaf
tea leaf
the Maple Leaf
tobacco leaf
tone-deaf
turn over a new leaf
vine leaf
waterleaf
wheat sheaf

Synonyms and antonyms of sheaf in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHEAF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sheaf» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sheaf
bunch · bundle · heap · mass · pile · stack · wodge

Translation of «sheaf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHEAF

Find out the translation of sheaf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sheaf from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sheaf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gavilla
570 millions of speakers

English

sheaf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुलिंदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحزمه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пучок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

maço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোছা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gerbe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sheaf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Garbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뭉치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wedhus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tập giấy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏடுகள் சிலவற்றை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भुईकोट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

demet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

covone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

snop
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пучок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

snop
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεμάτι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gerf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sheaf
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nek
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sheaf

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEAF»

The term «sheaf» is regularly used and occupies the 77.191 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEAF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sheaf

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2 QUOTES WITH «SHEAF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sheaf.
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Henri Bergson
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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J. K. Rowling
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEAF»

Discover the use of sheaf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sheaf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sheaf Theory
" The parts of sheaf theory covered here are those areas important to algebraic topology. There are several innovations in this book. The concept of the "tautness" of a subspace is introduced and exploited throughout the book.
Glen E. Bredon, 1997
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Sheaf Theory
Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter and at various places in the text. Hints and solutions to some of them are given at the end of the book.
B. R. Tennison, 1975
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Applications of Sheaf Theory to Function Algebras
A representation theory is developed for an arbitrary commutative algebra with identity in terms of al algebra of continuous functions on a suitable topological space.
Albert Emerson Hurd, 1961
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Several Complex Variables VII: Sheaf-Theoretical Methods in ...
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Eccl. 12.12. 1. In the beginning Riemann created the surfaces.
H. Grauert, Thomas Peternell, R. Remmert, 1994
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An Arithmetic Riemann-Roch Theorem for Singular Arithmetic ...
This chapter is concerned with the relative dualizing sheaf, the associated duality isomorphisms, and the associated Riemann-Roch isomorphism. In keeping with the stated aims of this paper, I have tried to make this account as concrete and ...
Wayne Aitken, 1991
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Complex Algebraic Geometry
where for brevity I write I = mpl . mp? . mp3 for the ideal sheaf of {Pi, P2, P3}, that is, the subsheaf of Opn consisting of regular functions on an open U vanishing at {Pi,P2,P3} n U. Now in sheaf theory we say that the evaluation map in (*) is ...
János Kollár, 2000
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Algebraic Surfaces and Holomorphic Vector Bundles
Coherent. Sheaves. What. is. a. coherent. sheaf? Let X be a scheme (or analytic space) with x C X and let R = Ox,x be the local ring at x. For our purposes I will usually be regular, and we could as well work in the analytic category, so that the  ...
Robert Friedman, 1998
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Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 3, Sheaf Theory
and every natural transformation a: R I ——>F, there exists a unique extension 5: 'K (—, D) ——>F of a. By construction, L is a localizing system and, of course, is the biggest localizing system for which F is a sheaf. Since F is also a sheaf for the  ...
Francis Borceux, 1994
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An Introduction to Homological Algebra
Let 0X be the sheaf on X defined by Ox (U) = {holomorphic / : U ->□ Cx }; that is, f (z) / 0 for all z e U . If <p: O -> Cxis the sheaf map defined by (pu : / i-> e2nif , then ker<p = Z, the constant sheaf at Z on X, and, for each [/, there is an exact ...
Joseph Rotman, 2008
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Several Complex Variables with Connections to Algebraic ...
of T, as claimed, Then o factors as the natural map S — S. followed by o. followed by the inverse of the isomorphism between T and its sheaf of sections given by (iii ). It is easy to see that any factorization of 0 through S has this form.
Joseph L. Taylor

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEAF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sheaf is used in the context of the following news items.
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Victim's mother-in-law died hours before crash
Rodriguez was headed east in the 14100 block of Carmel Valley Road when his Fiat 500 veered into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into Mayer-Sheaf's ... «10News, Jul 15»
2
Woman Killed in Suspected DUI Crash 'Very Family-Oriented'
... before the fatal crash, neighbors told NBC 7 Thursday. The death of Enid Diane Mayer-Sheaf, 61, has devastated those who knew and loved her. «NBC 7 San Diego, Jul 15»
3
Just Open: Garden bar, The Sheaf, Double Bay
The Sheaf in Double Bay has opened its new garden bar and introduced a fresh bistro menu to mark the first stage of renovations taking place this year. «Good Food, Jun 15»
4
The Sheaf unveils first renovation stage
Bruce Solomon told TheShout: "The Garden Bar has always been an iconic part of The Sheaf. With this refurbishment we've brought a really strong food focus ... «The Shout, Jun 15»
5
Meet GB beach volleyball duo Chris Gregory & Jake Sheaf
BBC Sport visits GB beach volleyball pair Chris Gregory and Jake Sheaf, who will be representing Britain at the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The duo ... «BBC Sport, Jun 15»
6
Girls on the Run Team at Barley Sheaf School in Flemington …
The spring Girls On The Run Team at Barley Sheaf Elementary School in Flemington, recently collected 1,085 pencils and 40 pencil sharpeners to send to an ... «NJ.com, Jun 15»
7
Citrix unleashes sheaf of updates at Synergy 2015
Citrix has announced a swath of updates to its flagship products, including XenApp and XenServer. Two major announcements were made around XenApp, ... «Cloud Pro, May 15»
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Eggs dropped at Barley Sheaf School in the name of science …
RARITAN TWP. — The parking lot of Barley Sheaf Elementary School was filled with excitement from kids and parents as eggs in different creative containers ... «NJ.com, May 15»
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Barley Sheaf School's 2015 5K is colorful spectacle
RARITAN TWP. — The annual Barley Sheaf School 5K and Fun Walk was a colorful spectacle today with colored powders being issued to all runners, and with ... «NJ.com, May 15»
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The Barley Sheaf Players present Matthew Barber's Enchanted April
Photos courtesy of Andrea Grinwis The Barley Sheaf Players invite you on a journey of discovery with their production of "Enchanted April." By Barley Sheaf ... «Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers, Apr 15»

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