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Sheaves is the plural of either of two nouns: Sheaf (disambiguation) Sheave This page was last edited on 1 ...
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne.Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine. A sheaf (/ ʃ iː f /; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
Sheaf may refer to: Sheaf (agriculture), a bundle of harvested cereal stems; Sheaf (mathematics), a mathematical tool; Sheaf toss, a Scottish sport; River Sheaf, a tributary of River Don in England; The Sheaf, a student-run newspaper serving the University of Saskatchewan; Aluma, a settlement in Israel whose name translates as Sheaf
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
Thus, some varieties may produce noun phrases like ten mile (rather than ten miles) while still using the plural morpheme in other contexts (e.g., two girls). This method of plural marking for weights and measures occurs in certain rural varieties of Southern U.S. English. Third, irregular plural nouns may be regularized and use the –s morpheme.
In mathematics, a topos (US: / ˈ t ɒ p ɒ s /, UK: / ˈ t oʊ p oʊ s, ˈ t oʊ p ɒ s /; plural topoi / ˈ t ɒ p ɔɪ / or / ˈ t oʊ p ɔɪ /, or toposes) is a category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or more generally: on a site).
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Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".