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sheet
1[ sheet ]
noun
- a 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.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with a sheet or sheets.
- to wrap in a sheet.
- to cover with a sheet or layer of something.
sheet
2[ sheet ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.
sheet
1/ ʃ¾±Ë³Ù /
noun
- 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
verb
- tr to provide with, cover, or wrap in a sheet
- intr (of rain, snow, etc) to fall heavily
sheet
2/ ʃ¾±Ë³Ù /
noun
- nautical a line or rope for controlling the position of a sail relative to the wind
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³ó±ð±ð³Ùl±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ²õ³ó±ð±ð³Ùl¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sheet1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sheet1
Origin of sheet2
Idioms and Phrases
- three sheets in / to the wind, Slang. intoxicated ( def 1 ).
More idioms and phrases containing sheet
see three sheets to the wind ; white as a sheet .Example Sentences
With goals flowing, two clean sheets on the bounce and substitutes showing they can make a difference, it showed England could be peaking at just the right time.
The Argentine kept just his fourth clean sheet of the season in Wednesday's win at Brighton but he is a differential keeper option for this week and the rest of the season.
Fridays after school and figure skating practice, I’d set out the lineup — chocolate chips, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, Crisco — pressing the dough into fat, craggy mounds on my mom’s old cookie sheets.
A fact sheet published by the White House said pharmaceuticals will not be subject to the tariff.
Roughly half of the 16 million cars, SUVs and light trucks Americans bought in 2024 were imports, the White House said in a fact sheet about the tariffs.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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