panic vs sheaf

panic

noun
  • The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants. 

  • Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet. 

  • Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. 

  • A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline. 

  • A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass. 

  • A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright. 

  • Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden. 

verb
  • To cause (a computer system) to crash. 

  • To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily. 

  • Of a computer system: to crash. 

  • To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show). 

sheaf

noun
  • A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. 

  • A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. 

  • A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. 

  • 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. 

  • Any collection of things bound together. 

  • A sheave. 

verb
  • To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves 

  • To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. 

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