sheeting

[shee-ting]

noun

1. the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets. sheet.

2. wide muslin, chiefly for sheets. sheet.

3. Engineering, Building Trades.,  a quantity of sheet piles.

sheeting

/ ˈʃiːtɪŋ /

noun

1. fabric from which sheets are made

Other Word Forms

• unsheeting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sheeting¹

First recorded in 1705–15; sheet ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The Dodgers will, so that was Friedman late Friday night, drenched in celebratory alcohol after a championship series sweep, sloshing through pools of liquid forming on plastic sheeting.

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Cheap champagne and even cheaper beer flowed freely — mostly over people’s heads — before forming deep puddles on some plastic sheeting that had hastily been laid along the floor.

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At one point, team members constructed a dam using plastic sheeting to carry rising flood water past the cave entrance.

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The script works in as many callbacks as possible: spooky mannequins under plastic sheeting, tacky parade floats with giant fiberglass clams, Hewitt hollering her memorable line: “What are you waiting for?”

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The flooding began with a heavy downpour that sent water sheeting off the hillsides and into creeks.

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Related Words

• bedding 
• pillowcase