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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sheet has 8 senses
- sheet(n = noun.object) Array - any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice" is a kind of expanse
- sheet(n = noun.communication) piece of paper, sheet of paper - paper used for writing or printing; Array has particulars: slip, slip of paper, signature, folio, leaf, tear sheet, foolscap, style sheet, worksheet, revenue stamp, stamp
- sheet(n = noun.artifact) bed sheet - bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs; Array is a kind of bed linen
- sheet(n = noun.shape) plane - (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" is a kind of form, shape
- sheet(n = noun.communication) rag, tabloid - newspaper with half-size pages; Array is a kind of newspaper, paper
- sheet(n = noun.artifact) flat solid - a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width; Array is a kind of artefact, artifact
- sheet(n = noun.artifact) mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet - (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind; Array has particulars: futtock shroud
- sheet(n = noun.artifact) canvas, canvass, sail - a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel; Array has particulars: balloon sail, crossjack, mizzen course, fore-and-aft sail, foresail, headsail, mainsail, main-topsail, press of canvas, press of sail, royal, save-all, skysail, square sail, topgallant, topgallant sail, topsail
is a kind of paper
has particulars: contour sheet, fitted sheet
Derived form verb sheet2
has particulars: cartesian plane, facet plane, midline, midplane, orbital plane, picture plane, tangent plane
has particulars: blackboard, chalkboard, blank, board, film, plastic film, laminate, membrane, panel, plate, photographic plate, plate, plate glass, sheet glass, sheet metal, stencil
is a kind of line
is a part of ship
has parts: reef
is a kind of piece of cloth, piece of material
is a part of sailing ship, sailing vessel
Verb sheet has 2 senses
- sheet(v = verb.weather) Array - come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" is one way to pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
- sheet(v = verb.contact) Array - cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body" is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
It is ----ing
Derived forms noun sheet3, noun sheeting1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
sheet, n. [OE. shete, schete, AS. sc, sc, fr. sceát a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat, Icel. skaut, Goth. skauts the hem of a garment); originally, that which shoots out, from the root of AS. sceótan to shoot. Shoot, v. t. ].
- In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. [1913 Webster]"He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners." [1913 Webster]"If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me
In one of those same sheets." [1913 Webster]"To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer." [1913 Webster] - A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom. [1913 Webster]" Sheet is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets, or thin plates or leaves; as, sheet brass, or sheet-brass; sheet glass, or sheet-glass; sheet gold, or sheet-gold; sheet iron, or sheet-iron, etc." [1913 Webster]
sheet, v. t.
- To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To expand, as a sheet. [1913 Webster]"The star shot flew from the welkin blue,
As it fell from the sheeted sky." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sheet, n. & v.
--n.
1 a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used esp. in pairs as inner bedclothes.
2 a a broad usu. thin flat piece of material (e.g. paper or metal). b (attrib.) made in sheets (sheet iron).
3 a wide continuous surface or expanse of water, ice, flame, falling rain, etc.
4 a set of unseparated postage stamps.
5 derog. a newspaper, esp. a disreputable one.
6 a complete piece of paper of the size in which it was made, for printing and folding as part of a book.
--v.
1 tr. provide or cover with sheets.
2 tr. form into sheets.
3 intr. (of rain etc.) fall in sheets.
--n.
1 a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used esp. in pairs as inner bedclothes.
2 a a broad usu. thin flat piece of material (e.g. paper or metal). b (attrib.) made in sheets (sheet iron).
3 a wide continuous surface or expanse of water, ice, flame, falling rain, etc.
4 a set of unseparated postage stamps.
5 derog. a newspaper, esp. a disreputable one.
6 a complete piece of paper of the size in which it was made, for printing and folding as part of a book.
--v.
1 tr. provide or cover with sheets.
2 tr. form into sheets.
3 intr. (of rain etc.) fall in sheets.
Idiom
sheet lightning a lightning flash with its brightness diffused by reflection. sheet metal metal formed into thin sheets by rolling, hammering, etc. sheet music music published in cut or folded sheets, not bound.
sheet, n.
1 a rope or chain attached to the lower corner of a sail for securing or controlling it.
2 (in pl.) the space at the bow or stern of an open boat.
1 a rope or chain attached to the lower corner of a sail for securing or controlling it.
2 (in pl.) the space at the bow or stern of an open boat.
Idiom
flowing sheets sheets eased for free movement in the wind. sheet anchor
1 a second anchor for use in emergencies.
2 a person or thing depended on in the last resort. sheet bend a method of temporarily fastening one rope through the loop of another.
1 a second anchor for use in emergencies.
2 a person or thing depended on in the last resort. sheet bend a method of temporarily fastening one rope through the loop of another.
Etymology
ME f. OE sceata, ON skaut (as SHEET(1))
THESAURUS
sheet
afghan, alabaster, area, article, back matter, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, book, buffalo robe, cardboard, case, chalk, chapter, clause, clothes, coat, coating, collop, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, counterpane, cover, covering, coverlet, coverlid, cut, daily, daily newspaper, deal, disk, driven snow, eiderdown, expanse, extra, extra edition, fascicle, feuille, film, fitted sheet, flap, fleece, flour, foam, foil, fold, folio, front matter, gathering, gazette, ivory, journal, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lamination, lap, lap robe, layer, leaf, lily, linen, maggot, membrane, milk, monthly, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, newspaper, newspaper of record, number, page, pane, panel, paper, paragraph, passage, patchwork quilt, patina, pearl, peel, pellicle, phrase, pillow slip, pillowcase, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, quilt, quire, rag, rasher, ream, robe, rug, safety glass, scum, section, sentence, sheeting, signature, silver, skin, slab, slat, slice, slip, snow, special, special edition, spread, stationery, stratum, stretch, surface, swan, table, tablet, tabloid, text, veneer, verse, wafer, weekly, weekly newspaperROGET THESAURUS
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Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.Covering
N covering, cover, baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin, canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade, veil (shade), shield, roof, ceiling, thatch, tile, pantile, pentile, tiling, slates, slating, leads, barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed, top, lid, covercle, door, operculum, bulkhead, bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall, coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget, housing, antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip, linoleum, saddle cloth, blanket cloth, tidy, tilpah, apishamore, integument, tegument, skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide, pelt, peltry, cordwain, derm, robe, buffalo robe, cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis, clothing, mask, peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat, eggshell, glume, capsule, sheath, sheathing, pod, cod, casing, case, theca, elytron, elytrum, involucrum, wrapping, wrapper, envelope, vesicle, corn husk, corn shuck, dermatology, conchology, testaceology, inunction, incrustation, superimposition, superposition, obduction, scale, veneer, facing, overlay, plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate, engobe, ormolu, Sheffield plate, pavement, coating, paint, varnish, plating, barrel plating, anointing, enamel, epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition, ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo, cerement, ointment, covering, superimposed, overlaid, plated, cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous, covered, imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad, under cover, cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform, vaginate.
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