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How to pronounce sheaf in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bundle
Type of parcel, package
Has types fagot, bale, swag, pack, faggot

Examples of sheaf

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Truesdell, putting to use a sheaf of unrecorded Evans arrangements for big band.
From the nytimes.com
Equivalently, the kernel of the morphism is itself a finitely generated sheaf.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And I feebly reached down between a tangle of legs to retrieve the sheaf of pages.
From the sfgate.com
On my lap wobbles an enormous clipboard, a sheaf of papers and clutch of charcoals.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Make small, random snips with scissors in strips at top of sheaf to resemble wheat.
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A second sheaf of measures announced this year was aimed at reviving growth.
From the nzherald.co.nz
These functors, and certain variants of theirs, are essential parts of sheaf theory.
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Ibrahim hadn't bothered either to take a sheaf of journalists'hotel bills.
From the guardian.co.uk
Murray pulls out a sheaf of graphs showing how gold has tripled in price this decade.
From the bloomberg.com
More examples
  • Bundle: a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
  • The Sheaf is a student run newspaper serving the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan since 1912. A new issue comes out every Thursday with approximately 9,000 copies per issue.
  • A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw; Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer; A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four; A sheave; ...
  • (Sheaves) To dream of sheaves, denotes joyful occasions. Prosperity holds before you a panorama of delightful events, and fields of enterprise and fortunate gain.
  • (JP 1-02) - In artillery and naval gunfire support, planned planes (lines) of fire that produce a desired pattern of bursts with rounds fired by two or more weapons. See FMs 6-series and 7-90.
  • This event derives from the farming traditions of Scotland. It grew out of a competition to see who could toss a sheaf of wheat highest. Today we use a 16 or 20 lb. weighted ball of twine and burlap, and a standard pitch fork to toss. ...