Sheaf vs Heap - What's the difference?
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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:
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
* Francis Bacon
* W. Black
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
* Dryden
A great number or large quantity of things.
* Bishop Burnet
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
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To pile in a heap.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
To supply in great quantity.
Sheaf is a related term of heap.
As nouns the difference between sheaf and heap
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 heap is heap.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.
heap
English
(wikipedia heap)Noun
(en noun)- a heap of vassals and slaves
- He had heaps of friends.
- a heap of earth or stones
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(heap)- He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- News of that vanished Arabian,
- A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
