Sheaf vs Branch - What's the difference?
sheaf | branch |
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , Act V, Scene III, line 70:
* (rfdate) (John Dryden):
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
* (rfdate) (John Dryden):
A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
* 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.
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To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
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:
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
A location of an organization with several locations.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
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(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see .
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
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(nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
(computer architecture) A sequence of .
To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
To produce branches.
To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
(computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
As a noun sheaf
is a quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.As a verb sheaf
is to gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.As a proper noun branch is
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf , / These broken limbs again into one body.
- The reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.
- a sheaf of paper
- The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.
- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.
branch
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(es) (wikipedia branch)- the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway
- the branches of a hyperbola
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- the English branch of a family
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
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