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503. Sheaf - CPE Nouns - CPE Vocabulary - Sheaf / Sheaves / Wheatsheaf

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 11. 30.
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Sheaf : (종이/책/서류) 다발, 묶음, (밀을 베어 묶어 놓은) 단, 묶음, 다발로 묶다, 하나로 묶다
Sheaves

Wheatsheaf : 짚단, 밀묶음

 

 

1)
a sheaf is a bundle of things, particularly tied together
I think the most common collocation you're going to find is a sheaf of papers
the student walked into the room with a sheaf of notes, a bundle of notes that were tied together with a piece of string 
the lawyer came into the courtroom with a sheaf of papers, all tied together

a sheaf of printouts
a sheaf of notes

 

 

2)
the original meaning of a sheaf, it comes from a corn or cereal that was cut and tied together in sheaves
you've seen these old-fashioned pictures where somebody harvests, they cut the stems anad then they take a group of them and they tie around them and they leave them in the field to dry
wheatsheaf, this is talking about a sheaf of wheat, they cut the wheat and they tie an amount of it in a bundle and they leave it in the field

 

 

3)
now you can also use this word, sheaf, to talk about a lot of things all together
alcohole has a brings a sheaf of social problems with it 
a bundle, all together
he made a sheaf of proposals to improve the system
so a group of them but all together
the new government gave the civil servants a sheaf of new directives
it seems that at the moment Mr. Trump has a sheaf of legal problems
the company generated a sheaf of lawsuits , a group of lawsuits, all connected with the same thing
a sheaf of new ideas
any bundel, a cluster, a collection fo things that come alltogether
being overweight carries with a sheaf of possible medical problems

 

4)
but notice, I wouldn't say a sheaf of people or a sheaf of dogs
a sheaf, it's more a bundle, they've got something in common and all together

 

5)
you can also use this sheaf as a verb, to sheaf, to gather together in a bundle and tie together

 

 

6)
you could also have a sheaf of arrows
an archer has his arrows in his quiver and in his quiver, he has a sheaf of arrows
it's the arrows that are actually inside his quiver

 

 


Formality : 5 for a sheaf of papers
Formality : 5.5 for a sheaf of ideas

 

 

 

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