(v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructurally, clusters of intermediate filaments, twisted sheaves of filaments resembling tonofilaments, intermediate junctions, and intracellular canaliculi were found in these cells.
(2) Nineteen years ago I’d collected sheaves of estate agents’ details and piled them into Yes, No, Maybe.
(3) The art critic John Ruskin claimed to have burned sheaves of them in 1858, but 10 years ago an expert at the Tate Gallery came to the conclusion that this never happened.
(4) From the end of the first month to the sixth month small sheaves of smooth-muscle cells were observed in the cicatricial tissue.
(5) When you rush big projects in sensitive places, you increase the potential for a disaster – it regularly leads to massive environmental damage and an expensive clean-up that could have been prevented if there had been detailed scientific consideration and community engagement,” Sheaves said.
(6) Most days at midday, Uber’s nondescript office in London’s King’s Cross opens its doors and dozens of men clutching sheaves of driving licences and insurance documents pour in.
(7) Almost all asbestos fibers detected in the tap water possessed the form of thick or sheaved fibers with lengths ranging from ca.
(8) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(9) "If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
(10) Prof Marcus Sheaves, head of marine biology at James Cook University, said the lack of a considered process around the wetlands plan was “a serious concern”.
(11) Sheaves questioned the lack of a plan for “detailed integrated assessment of all components of the proposal and their implications, despite the sensitive nature of location of the proposed dredge-spoil dumping, and the public concern over the proposal”.
(12) Benign prostatic epithelium showed vimentin intermediate filaments distinctively distributed in the basal regions and as paranuclear sheaves along the long axis of the cell.
(13) Sheaves of complexly organized fibrillar components appear in the neuronal perikaryon; and ribosomes, Golgi elements, and microtubules are conspicuously numerous.
(14) Sheaves said coastal wetlands were crucial to the health of the Great Barrier Reef , as they prevented certain sediments and pollutants from flowing onto the coral.
(15) The differentiation of their processes was observed to involve a series of complex events related to retraction of the thick apical processes from the tips of which sheaves of filiform processes emerged, growth in the number and the thickness of the filiform processes, resorption of some of these filiform processes, cyclic changes in the appearance, resorption and reappearance of excrescences on the filiform processes, and changes in size and shape of the growth cones.
(16) Most myofibroblasts contained only sheaves of myofilaments along the margins of the cells, but some cells contained larger bundles of myofilaments and very closely resembled smooth muscle cells.
(17) Crystals may be arranged in sheaves or bundles and pass from one cell to another disrupting the continuity of membranes of both cells and nuclei.
(18) The public probably don’t see it but she has sheaves of handwritten notes.” The historical role of the PAC has been to dig into misspending by Whitehall, such as the tagging scandal that saw G4S and Serco charging for dead offenders (“Shocking complacency”, said Hodge).
(19) Many differentiated tumor cells contained organelles, such as vesicle-crowned lamellae (synaptic ribbons) and microtubular sheaves, as consistent with adult hamster pineocytes.
(20) One of the most famous bonfires in British art history, the destruction in 1858 of sheaves of erotic paintings by JMW Turner, by the horrified critic John Ruskin, never happened.
Theave
Definition:
(n.) A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.