collection vs sheaf

collection

noun
  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. 

  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term. 

  • A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set. 

  • The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. 

  • The activity of collecting. 

  • Multiple related objects associated as a group. 

  • The quality of being collected; calm composure. 

  • A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations. 

  • Debt collection. 

sheaf

noun
  • Any collection of things bound together. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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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