| 单词 | sheet |
| 释义 | sheet (once / 153 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4n 5n A sheet is a large, wide amount of something flat, like a sheet of metal or a sheet of paper. When it goes on your bed, a sheet is a similar expanse of fabric. The sheets on your bed cover your mattress and lie beneath your blanket or comforter, and the huge windows in your imaginary dream house would require enormous sheets of glass. Sheet music consists of musical notation written on sheets of paper, and a sheet of rain comes down so hard it looks like a solid surface. If it rained overnight and the water froze on the ground, you might say, "Careful, it's a sheet of ice outside!" WORD FAMILYsheet: sheeted, sheeting, sheetlike, sheets+/sheeting: sheetings USAGE EXAMPLESDrivers slowed just as a fast-moving thunderstorm unleashed sheets of rain that drenched the road and reduced visibility to a few dozen yards. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) We did the whole thing naked under white sheets. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) However, against a stubborn West Ham they managed a rare clean sheet which was the basis upon which last season's title success. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n any broad thin expanse or surface a sheet of ice Hyper expanse a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky 2n a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width Syn|Hypo|Hyper flat solid blackboard, chalkboard sheet of slate; for writing with chalk blanka piece of material ready to be made into something boarda flat piece of material designed for a special purpose film, plastic filma thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things laminatea sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers membranea thin pliable sheet of material panelsheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something platea sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic photographic plate, platea flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded plate glass, sheet glassglass formed into large thin sheets sheet metalsheet of metal formed into a thin plate stencila sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below aquaplanea board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water baffle, baffle boarda flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy bread board, breadboarda wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced bulletin board, notice boarda board that hangs on a wall; displays announcements chopping board, cutting boarda wooden board where meats or vegetables can be cut caisson, coffer, lacunaan ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome corrugated ironusually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows cover glass, cover slipa small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide cylinder heada detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump dampera movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace disc, diska flat circular plate drafting board, drawing boarda smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings drainboard, draining boarda board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink drumhead, heada membrane that is stretched taut over a drum engravinga block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved escutcheon(nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed fin keela metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability fishplatemetal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams flashingsheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing floor board, floorboarda board in the floor foila piece of thin and flexible sheet metal footboarda vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead gel, gelatina thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects grid, storage-battery grida perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material gusset, gusset platea metal plate used to strengthen a joist headboarda vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead ironing boardnarrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes kneelera board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on lamellathin plate license plate, numberplatea plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number L-platea square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner hawk, mortarboarda square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar nameplatea plate bearing a name palette, palletboard that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used pane, pane of glass, window glasssheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors pane, paneling, panellinga panel or section of panels in a wall or door planchettea triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages plastic laminatea laminate made by bonding plastic layers plate irona plate of iron platenthe flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type plessimeter, pleximetera small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations plyboard, plywooda laminate made of thin layers of wood Polaroid(trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare quarter platea photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches scoreboarda large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) shrink-wrapthe clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something sideboarda board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib sideboarda removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity skateboarda board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot microscope slide, slidea small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study snowboarda board that resembles a broad ski or a small surfboard; used in a standing position to slide down snow-covered slopes springboarda flexible board for jumping upward surfboarda narrow buoyant board for riding surf tapa small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) tin plate, tinplatea thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins trenchera wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved wainscot, wainscoting, wainscottingwooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room dado, wainscotpanel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wake board, wakeboarda buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat dry wall, drywall, wallboarda wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses windowa transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material work-board, workboarda horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole 3v come down as if in sheets 2The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon Hyper pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream rain heavily 1n bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs Syn|Hypo|Hyper bed sheet contour sheet, fitted sheet a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress bed linen linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases) 2n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel Syn|Hypo|Hyper canvas, canvass, sail balloon sail any light loose sail crossjack, mizzen coursethe lowermost sail on a mizzenmast fore-and-aft sailany sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction foresailthe lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel headsailany sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel mainsailthe lowermost sail on the mainmast main-topsaila topsail set on the mainmast press of canvas, press of sailthe greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely royala sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast save-alla sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail skysailthe sail above the royal on a square-rigger square saila four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast topgallant, topgallant saila sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast topsaila sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast fore-topsailthe topsail on a foremast gaff-headed sail, gaffsaila quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff fore-and-aft topsail, gaff topsaila triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast jibany triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) lateen, lateen saila triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean lug, lugsaila sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast main coursea square mainsail mizen, mizzenfore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast spankera fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel spinnakera large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind spritsaila fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit staysaila fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) piece of cloth, piece of material a separate part consisting of fabric 3v cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping 3sheet the body Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered n (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet futtock shroud shroud that is part of a ship's rigging line something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible 1n paper used for writing or printing Syn|Hypo|Hyper piece of paper, sheet of paper slip, slip of paper a small sheet of paper signaturea sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book folio, leafa sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) tear sheeta sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication foolscapa size of paper used especially in Britain style sheeta sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication worksheeta sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements revenue stamp, stampa small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid flyleafa blank leaf in the front or back of a book interleafa blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book pageone side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains paper a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses 2n newspaper with half-size pages 5Syn|Hyper rag, tabloid newspaper, paper a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements n (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape Syn|Hypo|Hyper plane Cartesian plane a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates facet planethe plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube) midline, midplanethe median plane of the body (or some part of the body) orbital plane(astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting picture planethe plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work tangent planethe plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface form, shape the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance |
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