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单词 sheave
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sheave1

verb ʃiːvʃiv
  • another term for sheaf (verb)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But like the quest for the Holy Grail, SEO is also sheaved in myth and misinformation.
    • But sheaving to carry out particular tasks was a conventional task that those operating these sort of vessels had to approach?
    • The cultures of the past recorded their reflections of daily life, whether they were figures of Pharaohs strutting across a wall of hieroglyphics or scenes of Russian peasant women sheaving wheat.
    • The two women at the left and right have bent down to sheave the crops.

Origin

Late 16th century: from sheaves.

Rhymes

achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves

sheave2

noun ʃiːvʃiv
  • A wheel with a groove for a rope to run on, as in a pulley block.

    滑车轮,槽轮

    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
    • A heavier line and finally a steel rope then followed, a wooden box was slung on two steel sheaves from the steel rope and pulled by a steel wire from both ends and a windless operated by an African.
    • Check on the cables, sheaves and adapters for wear or damage.
    • The notched wheel shape that is used in a pulley is actually called a sheave, which is more what I meant.
    • He replaced the sheaves and pulleys with a direct coupling.
    Synonyms
    system of pulleys, hoisting gear, pulley, hoist, block and tackle, crane, winch, davit, windlass

Origin

Middle English: from a Germanic base meaning 'wheel, pulley'.

sheave1

verbSHēvʃiv
  • another term for sheaf (verb)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two women at the left and right have bent down to sheave the crops.
    • But like the quest for the Holy Grail, SEO is also sheaved in myth and misinformation.
    • But sheaving to carry out particular tasks was a conventional task that those operating these sort of vessels had to approach?
    • The cultures of the past recorded their reflections of daily life, whether they were figures of Pharaohs strutting across a wall of hieroglyphics or scenes of Russian peasant women sheaving wheat.

Origin

Late 16th century: from sheaves.

sheave2

nounʃivSHēv
  • A wheel with a groove for a rope to run on, as in a pulley block.

    滑车轮,槽轮

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Check on the cables, sheaves and adapters for wear or damage.
    • According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
    • He replaced the sheaves and pulleys with a direct coupling.
    • A heavier line and finally a steel rope then followed, a wooden box was slung on two steel sheaves from the steel rope and pulled by a steel wire from both ends and a windless operated by an African.
    • The notched wheel shape that is used in a pulley is actually called a sheave, which is more what I meant.
    Synonyms
    system of pulleys, hoisting gear, pulley, hoist, block and tackle, crane, winch, davit, windlass

Origin

Middle English: from a Germanic base meaning ‘wheel, pulley’.

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