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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

... pile!' cried Tisquantum; and the flames burst up from the dry crackling wood, and threw a broad sheet of light on the ...

— The Pilgrims of New England - A Tale Of The Early American Settlers • Mrs. J. B. Webb

... to the other, and then surveyed Wasgatt and the papers he was clutching. He eyed General Waymouth with much interest and some surprise. He had not been informed of that gentleman's presence in the hotel. The General returned the gaze with serenity, creasing his sheet of manuscript on the table ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... a piece of red silk, about an inch in diameter, as in plate 1, at Sect. III. 1., on a sheet of white paper, in a strong light; look steadily upon it from about the distance of half a yard for a minute; then closing your eyelids cover them with your hands, and a green spectrum will be seen in your eyes, resembling in form the piece of red silk: ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... is no medium for them betwixt the highest elevation and death with infamy. Never can they, who, from the miserable servitude of the desk, have been raised to empire, again submit to the bondage of a starving bureau, or the profit of copying music, or writing plaidoyers by the sheet. It has made me often smile in bitterness, when I have heard talk of an indemnity to such men, provided they returned to ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Pierrot as he looked at a sheet of paper under his hand, on which for an hour or more he had been making notes out of worn and dusty company ledgers. It was Pierrot who stood in his way. Pierrot's father, according to those notes, had been a full-blooded Frenchman. Therefore Pierrot was half French, and Nepeese ...

— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood

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