Sheaf vs Conglomeration - What's the difference?
sheaf | conglomeration | Related terms |
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:
That which consists of many previously separate parts.
An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
Sheaf is a related term of conglomeration.
As nouns the difference between sheaf and conglomeration
is that sheaf is a quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw while conglomeration is that which consists of many previously separate parts.As a verb sheaf
is to gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.sheaf
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.
