Definitions for Sheet
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sheetnoun

   any broad thin expanse or surface

   "a sheet of ice"

2. sheet, piece of paper, sheet of papernoun

   paper used for writing or printing

3. sheet, bed sheetnoun

   bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

4. plane, sheetnoun

   (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"

5. tabloid, rag, sheetnoun

   newspaper with half-size pages

6. sheet, flat solidnoun

   a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

7. sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroudnoun

   (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

8. sail, canvas, canvass, sheetverb

   a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

9. sheetverb

   come down as if in sheets

   "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"

10. sheetverb

    cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping

    "sheet the body"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sheetnoun

   A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

2. sheetnoun

   A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

3. sheetnoun

   A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

4. sheetnoun

   A thin, flat layer of solid material.

5. sheetnoun

   A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

6. sheetnoun

   A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

7. sheetnoun

   A sail.

8. sheetnoun

   The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.

9. sheetnoun

   A layer of veneer.

10. sheetverb

    To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material

    Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.

11. sheetverb

    Of rain, or other precipitation. To pour heavily.

    We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.

12. sheetnoun

    Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sheetnoun

   Etymology: sceat , Saxon.

   1. A broad and large piece of linen.

   He saw heaven opened, and a vessel descending unto him, as a great sheet, knit at the four corners. Acts x. 11.

   2. The linen of a bed.

   If I die before thee, shroud me
   In one of these same sheets. William Shakespeare.

   You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes. Sha.

   Some unequal bride in nobler sheets
   Receives her lord. Dryden.

   3. [ Ecoutes, French; echoten, Dutch.]In a ship are ropes bent to the clews of the sails, which serve in all the lower sails to hale or round off the clew of the sail; but in topsails they draw the sail close to the yard arms. Dict. —— John Dryden seems to understand it otherwise.

   The little word behind the back, and undoing whisper, like pulling off a sheet-rope at sea, slackens the sail. John Suckling.

   Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails,
   And rent the sheets. Dryden.

   4. As much paper as is made in one body.

   As much love in rhime,
   As could be cramm’d up in a sheet of paper,
   Writ on both sides the leaf, margin and all. William Shakespeare.

   When I first put pen to paper, I though all I should have to say would have been contained in one sheet of paper. John Locke.

   I let the refracted light fall perpendicularly upon a sheet of white paper upon the opposite wall. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   5. A single complication or fold of paper in a book.6. Any thing expanded.

   Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder
   I never remember to have heard. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   Rowling thunder roars,
   And sheets of lightning blast the standing field. Dryden.

   An azure sheet it rushes broad,
   And from the loud resounding rocks below,
   Dash’d in a cloud of foam. James Thomson.

2. To Sheetverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To furnish with sheets.2. To enfold in a sheet.3. To cover as with a sheet.

   Like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,
   The barks of trees thou browsed’st. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sheet

   A sheet is a broad, flat, thin piece of material such as metal, glass, paper, or fabric. It can be used for a variety of purposes depending on its make. For example, fabric sheets can be used for bedding or curtains, while metal sheets can be used in construction. In the context of documents, a sheet is also often used to refer to a single page. In reference to software applications such as Microsoft Excel, a sheet refers to a workspace for entering and manipulating data.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sheetverb

   in general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies

2. Sheetverb

   a broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body

3. Sheetverb

   a broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc

4. Sheetverb

   a single signature of a book or a pamphlet;

5. Sheetverb

   the book itself

6. Sheetverb

   a broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf

7. Sheetverb

   a broad expanse of water, or the like

8. Sheetverb

   a sail

9. Sheetverb

   an extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata

10. Sheetverb

    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

11. Sheetverb

    the space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets

12. Sheetverb

    to furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet

13. Sheetverb

    to expand, as a sheet

14. Etymology: [OE. shete, schete, AS. scte, scte, fr. scet 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. scetan to shoot. 159. See Shoot, v. t.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sheet

   In sailing, a sheet is a line used to control the movable corner of a sail.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sheet

   shēt, n. a large, thin piece of anything: a large, broad piece of cloth in a bed: a large, broad piece of paper: a sail: the rope fastened to the leeward corner of a sail to extend it to the wind.—v.t. to cover with, or as with, a sheet: to furnish with sheets: to form into sheets.—ns. Sheet′-copp′er, -ī′ron, -lead, -met′al, copper, iron, lead, metal in thin sheets.—adj. Sheet′ed, with a white band or belt.—ns. Sheet′-glass, a kind of crown-glass made at first in the form of a cylinder, cut longitudinally, and opened out into a sheet; Sheet′ing, cloth used for bed-sheets: the process of forming into sheets; Sheet′-light′ning, lightning appearing in sheets or having a broad appearance; Sheet′-work, press-work.—A sheet (or Three sheets) in the wind, fuddled, tipsy; In sheets (print.), not folded, or folded but not bound. [A.S. scéte, scýte, a sheet—sceótan (pa.t. sceát), to shoot, project.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sheet

   A rope or chain fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail, to extend and retain the clue down to its place. When a ship sails with a side wind, the lower corners of the main and fore sails are fastened by a tack and a sheet, the former being to windward, and the latter to leeward; the tack is, however, only disused with a stern wind, whereas the sail is never spread without the assistance of one or both of the sheets; the staysails and studding-sails have only one tack and one sheet each; the staysail-tacks are fastened forward, and the sheets drawn aft; but the studding-sail tacks draw to the extremity of the boom, while the sheet is employed to extend the inner corner.

Matched Categories

1. • Artifact
   • Cover
   • Expanse
   • Line
   • Math
   • Newspaper
   • Paper
   • Pour
   • Seafaring
   • Shape

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sheet' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2682

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sheet' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1321

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sheet' in Nouns Frequency: #717

Anagrams for Sheet »

1. seeth

2. thees

3. these

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sheet in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sheet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Sheet in a Sentence

1. Dave Hager:

   If commodity prices remain low, Devon has significant balance sheet strength to withstand an extended downturn.

2. Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam:

   What I can say is that we have a strong balance sheet.

3. Charles Dickens:

   A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

4. Catherine Bradshaw:

   With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert.

5. Zoe Thomas:

   What we're seeing with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, that this starting of the melt, once we reach a certain threshold, will continue despite our efforts to stop it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Sheet
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sheet
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Sheet
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sheet
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Sheet
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Sheet
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Sheet