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Sheet

noun

1.

Any broad thin expanse or surface.

2.

Paper used for writing or printing. Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper.

3.

Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs. Synonym: bed sheet.

4.

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape. Synonym: plane. "Any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"

5.

Newspaper with half-size pages. Synonyms: rag, tabloid.

6.

A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width. Synonym: flat solid.

7.

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet.

8.

A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel. Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail.

verb

(past & past part. sheeted; pres. part. sheeting)

1.

Come down as if in sheets.

2.

Cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping.

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"Sheet" Quotes from Famous Books

... early winter sweep bitterly over Rosenheim, and all the vast Bavarian plain was one white sheet of snow. If there had not been whole armies of men at work always clearing the iron rails of the snow, no trains could ever have run at all. Happily for August, the thick wrappings in which the stove was enveloped and the stoutness of its own make screened him from the ...

— Bimbi • Louise de la Ramee

... the world is wrapped, The sullen wind doth groan, 'Neath winding-sheet the earth is stone, The ...

— Edward MacDowell • John F. Porte

... like sheet-lightning suddenly flashed from those black eyes; and, facing about, with quivering lip and dilated nostrils, she drew herself up, and fixed a glance, blazing with rage ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... manager about the kind of merchants that I've been injuring," smiled Tom, first showing the sheet to Superintendent Hawkins and then handing it to ...

— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock

... and ripped away the oilskin. Inside was a small folded sheet of paper. With trembling fingers they unfolded it. The sheet was blank! They stared ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

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