sheet
1a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
a broad, relatively thin, surface, layer, or covering.
a relatively thin, usually rectangular form, piece, plate, or slab, as of photographic film, glass, metal, etc.
material, as metal or glass, in the form of broad, relatively thin pieces.
a sail, as on a ship or boat.
a rectangular piece of paper or parchment, especially one on which to write.
a newspaper or periodical.
Printing and Bookbinding. a large, rectangular piece of printing paper, especially one for printing a complete signature.
Philately. the impression from a plate or the like on a single sheet of paper before any division of the paper into individual stamps.
an extent, stretch, or expanse, as of fire or water: sheets of flame.
a thin, flat piece of metal or a very shallow pan on which to place food while baking.
Geology. a more or less horizontal mass of rock, especially volcanic rock intruded between strata or poured out over a surface.
Mathematics.
one of the separate pieces making up a geometrical surface: a hyperboloid of two sheets.
one of the planes or pieces of planes making up a Riemann surface.
Crystallography. a type of crystal structure, as in mica, in which certain atoms unite strongly in two dimensions to form a layer that is weakly joined to others.
to furnish with a sheet or sheets.
to wrap in a sheet.
to cover with a sheet or layer of something.
Origin of sheet
1Other words from sheet
- sheetless, adjective
- sheetlike, adjective
Other definitions for sheet (2 of 2)
Nautical.
a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard.
a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail.
a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.
Origin of sheet
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How to use sheet in a sentence
“The culture, it seems, has reached its threshold for this short-sheeted religion,” writes Lyons.
The walls and ceilings of the rooms were sheeted with pitch pine and varnished.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowUpon one of two marble slabs in the center of the room, lay a sheeted corpse.
He turned quickly, and saw his father standing in the doorway, staring as if he had seen a sheeted ghost.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretHe stood blinking in the doorway, white-sheeted with snow from head to heel.
The Highgrader | William MacLeod Raine
The sheeted horseman did not merely warn and intimidate, especially when the warnings were not heeded.
The Modern Ku Klux Klan | Henry Peck Fry
British Dictionary definitions for sheet (1 of 2)
/ (ʃiːt) /
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, etc, generally one of a pair used as inner bedclothes
a thin piece of a substance such as paper, glass, or metal, usually rectangular in form
(as modifier): sheet iron
a broad continuous surface; expanse or stretch: a sheet of rain
a newspaper, esp a tabloid
a piece of printed paper to be folded into a section for a book
a page of stamps, usually of one denomination and already perforated
any thin tabular mass of rock covering a large area
(tr) to provide with, cover, or wrap in a sheet
(intr) (of rain, snow, etc) to fall heavily
Origin of sheet
1British Dictionary definitions for sheet (2 of 2)
/ (ʃiːt) /
nautical a line or rope for controlling the position of a sail relative to the wind
Origin of sheet
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Other Idioms and Phrases with sheet
see three sheets to the wind; white as a sheet.
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