gerbe — meaning in English

English meaning

• garb noun A style of clothing, especially one associated with a particular role, place, or era.
• sheaf noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
• spray noun A fine mist of liquid released into the air.

Senses

gerbe is used for these senses in English:

• garb (heraldiccharge) A wheatsheaf.
• sheaf A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
• sheaf (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:
• spray (metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.

garb — full definition

1. noun A style of clothing, especially one associated with a particular role, place, or era.
2. verb To dress someone in a particular style of clothing.

sheaf — full definition

1. noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
2. noun Any collection of things bound together.
3. noun A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
4. noun A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

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