Sheave vs Sprocket - What's the difference?
sheave | sprocket |
A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
to gather and bind into a sheaf
* , Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
(usually, in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
A (placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
As nouns the difference between sheave and sprocket
is that sheave is a wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley while sprocket is a toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.As a verb sheave
is to gather and bind into a sheaf.sheave
English
Etymology 1
Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse . For more see .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
See .Verb
(sheav)- ''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
- ''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
- ''Their country's harvest.
See also
* (pulley)Anagrams
*sprocket
English
(wikipedia sprocket)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year.
