Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“sheaves” is a form of

sheaf

/ʃiːf/ noun, verb

Forms sheaves sheafs sheafing sheafed

  1. noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
  2. noun Any collection of things bound together. “a sheaf of paper”
  3. noun (collective) A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
  4. noun (collective) A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
  5. noun (mechanics) A sheave.
  6. noun If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
  7. noun Given a family of sections s_i∈ℱ(U_i) such that all pairs (s_i,s_j) agree under restriction to U_i∩U_j, there is a (unique) section s over U whose restriction to U_i is s_i.
  8. verb (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves “to sheaf wheat”
  9. verb (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Synonyms

reap wheatsheaf bundle

Etymology

From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).
Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sheave. [R.]
  2. noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
  3. noun Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, --usually twenty-four.
  4. verb To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

Etymology [OE. sheef, shef, schef, AS. sceáf; akin to D. schoof, OHG. scoub, G. schaub, Icel. skauf a fox's brush, and E. shove. See Shove.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sheaf”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “sheaf” (best matches first).