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sheet
I. \ˈshēt, usu -ēd.+V\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scȳte; akin to Old English scēat corner, region, napkin, fold, lap, Old High German scōz coattail, lap, bosom, Old Norse skaut corner, coattail, bosom, sheet (rope regulating a sail), Gothic skaut edge (of a garment), Old English scēotan to shoot — more at shoot
1.
a. : a piece of cloth (as a towel or napkin) — obs. except in specific applications
b. : winding-sheet
c. : an oblong of usually linen or cotton cloth used in pairs as an article of bedding and placed one immediately under and one immediately over the person
< fresh sheets each week >
d. : a piece of cloth used as a covering or wrapping (as for a horse); especially : dust cover 1
e. : sail 1
2. : a usually oblong or square piece of paper especially in one of the various sizes in which paper is made according to the uses to which it is to be put
< brown wrapping paper in separate sheets >
< box of writing paper containing 24 sheets and 12 envelopes >
< 500-sheet roll of toilet paper >
as
a. : a piece of paper of a size suitable for printing especially of books or other matter of which the page is a subdivision of a larger area — often distinguished from reel and web; compare signature
b. : a printed signature for a book especially before it has been folded, cut, or bound — usually used in plural
< a book in sheets >
c. : a piece of paper comprising one unit of a larger printed whole
< a poster in 24 sheets >
d. : a newspaper, periodical, or occasional publication; often : one of a scandalous or scurrilous nature
< a hate sheet >
< a scandal sheet >
e. : printed or duplicated matter for reference or instruction (as in an office, shop, or factory) and often in pamphlet form
< an 8vo style sheet of 64 pages >
f.
(1) : the unseparated postage stamps printed by one impression of a plate on a single piece of paper
(2) : a quarter or half section of a sheet of stamps : pane — called also post-office sheet
(3) : one of the primary sections into which a reel of stamps printed by a rotary press is cut for shipment to post offices : miniature sheet, souvenir sheet
3.
a. : a broad stretch or surface of something that is usually thin in comparison to its length and breadth or that presents a white, bright, or glistening surface
< hills covered with a sheet of ice >
< whole sheets of daisies deck the meadows >
< a broad sheet of hardened lava >
b. : the expanse of ice on which a curling match is played
4.
a. : a suspended or moving expanse (as of fire, lightning, rain, or mist)
< rain came down in sheets >
< sheets of flame and smoke were driven by the wind >
< a sheet of fog rolled in from the sea >
b. : a thin flat current of compressed air striking the lip of a flue pipe in a pipe organ
5. : a broad thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance: as
a. : a plate forming part of a tank or boiler regardless of thickness
b. : a portion of metal less than about a quarter or sometimes an eighth of an inch in thickness — distinguished from plate; compare leaf 2d(2)
c. : sheet rubber
d.
(1) : a large shallow baking pan; especially : a flat baking utensil of tinned metal usually with a lip on the front edge for handling — see cookie sheet
(2) : cake or bread baked in one piece in a large shallow pan
< a sheet of gingerbread >
6. : all of a surface so connected that it is possible to pass from any one point of it to any other without leaving the surface
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- between the sheets
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1.
a. : to wrap in a sheet : cover with or as if with a sheet : shroud
< floors sheeted with dust >
b. : to cover in a sheet or layer
< mist sheets the valleys >
2. : to furnish (as a bed) with sheets
< a freshly-sheeted couch >
3. : to form into sheets: as
a. : to convert rubber to sheet form by calendering
b.
(1) : to cut (a roll of paper) into sheets
(2) : to run (pulp) into a sheet (as on a paper machine)
4. : slip-sheet
intransitive verb
1. : to fall, spread, or flow in or as if in a sheet
< fog sheeting in from the sea >
2. : to partially set and slip from a spoon in a sheet when poured after slight cooling — used of a test sample of jelly taken from a boiling mass
< bottle the jelly as soon as it sheets >
III. adjective
1. : rolled or spread out in a sheet
< sheet copper >
2. : of, relating to, or concerned with the making of sheet metal
< a sheet mill >
< sheet rollers >
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēata corner, lap, lower corner of a sail; akin to Middle Low German schōte sheet (rope regulating a sail), Old English scēat corner, lap — more at sheet I
1. : a rope or chain that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind — see mainsheet, weather sheet; compare tack; see sail illustration
2. sheets plural : the spaces at either end of an open boat not occupied by thwarts : foresheets and stern sheets together
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- sheet in the wind
V. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: sheet home 1
VI. noun
(-s)
Etymology: by shortening
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