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Meaning of "sheathy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHEATHY

sheathy  [ˈʃiːθɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHEATHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sheathy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SHEATHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sheathy in the English dictionary

The definition of sheathy in the dictionary is resembling or constituting a sheath.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHEATHY


couthie
ˈkuːθɪ
couthy
ˈkuːθɪ
earthy
ˈɜːθɪ
heathy
ˈhiːθɪ
lathy
ˈlɑːθɪ
Lethe
ˈliːθɪ
McCarthy
məˈkɑːθɪ
swathy
ˈswɔːθɪ
toothy
ˈtuːθɪ
truthy
ˈtruːθɪ
unseaworthy
ʌnˈsiːwɜːθɪ
wreathy
ˈriːθɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHEATHY

shearing
shearing gang
shearing shed
shearleg
shearlegs
shearling
shearman
shears
shearwater
sheatfish
sheath
sheath knife
sheathbill
sheathe
sheather
sheathfish
sheathing
sheathless
sheave
sheaves

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHEATHY

allelopathy
allopathy
apathy
breathy
cardiomyopathy
empathy
encephalopathy
enteropathy
homeopathy
homoeopathy
lymphadenopathy
myelopathy
naturopathy
nephropathy
neuropathy
osteopathy
retinopathy
sympathy
tea and sympathy
telepathy

Synonyms and antonyms of sheathy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sheathy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHEATHY

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

Translator English - Chinese

sheathy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sheathy
570 millions of speakers

English

sheathy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sheathy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sheathy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sheathy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sheathy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sheathy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sheathy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sheathy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sheathy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sheathy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sheathy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sheathy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sheathy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sheathy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरागसपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sheathy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sheathy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sheathy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sheathy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sheathy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sheathy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sheathy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sheathy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sheathy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sheathy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEATHY»

The term «sheathy» is used very little and occupies the 151.501 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEATHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sheathy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sheathy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEATHY»

Discover the use of sheathy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sheathy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, ...
The. embryo, with a kind of sheathy covering. (hex-trier considered this sheathy covering as the cotyledon of the ' ' 6 . But Dr. Smith conceives the vitellus of Gartner to sio Proceedings of Philosophical Societies. [APBIL' Linnzean Society ...
Thomas Thomson, 1813
2
The Medical and Physical Journal
Gaerlner considered this sheathy covering as the cotyledon of the grasses. Eut Dr. Smith conceives the vitellus of Gaertner to be the cotyledon. The object of Mr. Keith's paper is to show that Gaertner's opinion is correct, and that the vitellus ...
3
Gymnosperms
The leaves are connate at the base, in some cases they are sheathy directly inserted on the stem node. The leaf is highly reduced and rudimentary, hardly having any leaf lamina, which is represented by a thick and fleshy mid A B C Figure ...
Dr. C. M. Govil
4
The Psychology of the Body
Using the entire palm or both palms, the massage therapist slowly applies weight to the dense, sheathy tissue. The pressure needs to be applied broadly, rather than with point pressure, such as with finger or thumb tips, because pressure ...
Elliot Greene, Barbara Goodrich-Dunn, 2013
5
The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of ...
Bulb ovately round with a sheathy neck, about an inch and a half in diameter. Leaves bifarious, lorately-lanceolate, in all the samples we saw from two to three, 6-12 inches long, about an inch broad at the widest part, glaucous at the under ...
Sydenham Teast Edwards, John Lindley, 1820
6
A French and English dictionary
... the plural of Sheaf, which see. . SHEATHY (chitsh'-i) adj. [forming a sheath] ...
Joseph Wilson (Professor in St. Gregory's College.), 1833
7
Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European ...
Eriophorum vaginatum L. − Perennial, densely tufted, stems erect, 30-60cm high, roundish below, 3-angular above, lower half sheathy and leafy. Fruits achenes, obovoid, 3-sided or angular, all sides flattish or slight convex or depressed, ...
Vít Bojnanský, Agáta Fargašová, 2007
8
An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... a. gweiniog Sheather, shidd'-er, s. gweiniwr Sheathing, shidd'-ing, s. gweiniad I Sheathless, shidd'-les, a. diwain, an- j weinio'g Sheathmaker, shïdd'-mëo-er, s. gweiniwr Sheathwinged, shidd'-wingd, a. aeswain, adanwain Sheathy, shidd'-i, ...
Thomas Edwards, 1864
9
A General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the ...
shEth, v. to enclose; put into s Sheathe, J sheath Sheathy, shEtn'e, a. forming a sheatb Shed, shed, n. a temporary covering ; effuaor. as blood-jifrf— v. to effuse ; to spill Sheen, shen, n. brightness; splendour— a. brigt Sheep, shep, n. a ...
George Fulton, G. Knight, 1814
10
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
SHEATHY. adj. [from sheaths Forming a sheath. — With a needle put aside the short and sheathy cases on ear-wigs backs, and you may draw forth two wings. Brown. SHEATS, n.s. in a ship, are ropes bent to the clews of the lails; serving in  ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEATHY»

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The struggle of the puggle
While they all have a little sheathy spur on their back legs when they are young, the females are supposed to lose them as they get older. “But we've had reports ... «Northern Rivers Echo, Sep 10»

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