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sheeting

American  
[shee-ting] / ˈʃi tɪŋ /

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 British  
/ ˈʃiːtɪŋ /

noun

  1. fabric from which sheets are made

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • unsheeting adjective

Etymology

Origin of sheeting

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

Example Sentences

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Most of the main concourse is not accessible and has been screened off using solid metal sheeting.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The external walls of the soaring residential towers were covered in bamboo scaffolding and wrapped in netting and plastic sheeting.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

He’d found a pair of workshoes and the boy was wearing blue tennis shoes with rags stuffed into the toes and they had fresh sheeting for face masks.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy