To gather and bind into a sheaf.
Used in a Sentence
sheave
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sheave.
Editorial note
Thicker cables require bigger sheaves to avoid fatigue, but the sheave can't be larger than about half the shaft width.
Examples7
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To gather and bind into a sheaf.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sheave gathered in one view.
A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sheave.
verb
To gather and bind into a sheaf.
noun
A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
noun
A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Example sentences
Thicker cables require bigger sheaves to avoid fatigue, but the sheave can't be larger than about half the shaft width.
By default the belt had enough slack to allow it to slip on the drive sheave preventing the machine from running.
I'd like to see the design of the block with sheave that the rope came out of.
But from the point of view of intuitionist logic, a scheme is just a ring, and a quasi-coherent sheave is just a module over this ring (in more details they are ring objects and module objects in the big Zariski topos).
SCO in particular went on and on about the sheave of Unix code they'd identified in the Linux kernel (while asking the judge to extend the deadline yet again for them to have to present evidence).
Just a bit more difficult with the ubiquity of PC's, gigabit fiber and sheave theory in today's world (with or without servings of Tooth's Sheaf Stout[10]) Stanle Kubrick did AI without a PC and avoided segfault bricks.
Quote examples
I sit half-standing at a really tall desk on a stool I made out of a big sheave, a 3" steel pipe, and a piece of rough-cut 3/8" plate.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sheave in a sentence?
Thicker cables require bigger sheaves to avoid fatigue, but the sheave can't be larger than about half the shaft width.
What does sheave mean?
To gather and bind into a sheaf.
What part of speech is sheave?
sheave is commonly used as verb, noun.