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Sheet

/SHēt/

noun
- 1. a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed to cover the mattress and as a layer beneath blankets when these are used. Similar bed linenlinenbedclothes
- ▪ used in comparisons to describe the pallor of a person who is ill or has had a shock: "Are you OK? You're as white as a sheet"
- 2. a rectangular piece of paper, especially one of a standard size produced commercially and used for writing and printing on: "a sheet of unmarked paper" Similar piece of paperleafpagefolio
- ▪ a quantity of text or other information contained on a sheet of paper: "he produced yet another sheet of figures"
- ▪ a flat piece of paper as opposed to a reel of continuous paper, the bound pages of a book, or a folded map.
- ▪ all the postage stamps printed on one piece of paper: "a sheet of stamps"
- ▪ a map, especially one part of a series covering a larger area.
- 3. a broad flat piece of material such as metal or glass: "the small pipe has been formed from a flat sheet of bronze" Similar panepanelpieceplateslab
- 4. an extensive unbroken surface area of something: "a sheet of ice" Similar layerstratumcoveringblanketcoatingcoatoverlaylaminalaminationveneerfilmskinmembraneexpanseareastretchsweep
- ▪ a broad moving mass of flames or water: "the rain was still falling in sheets"
verb
- 1. cover with or wrap in a sheet or sheets: "we sheeted a narrow bed"
- 2. (of rain) fall in large quantities: "rain sheeted down"
Word Origin Old Englishscēte, scīete, of Germanic origin; related to the verb shoot in its primary sense ‘to project’.
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