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1 [sheet]
–noun
| 1. | a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper. |
| 2. | a broad, relatively thin, surface, layer, or covering. |
| 3. | a relatively thin, usually rectangular form, piece, plate, or slab, as of photographic film, glass, metal, etc. |
| 4. | material, as metal or glass, in the form of broad, relatively thin pieces. |
| 5. | a sail, as on a ship or boat. |
| 6. | a rectangular piece of paper or parchment, esp. one on which to write. |
| 7. | a newspaper or periodical. |
| 8. | Printing and Bookbinding. a large, rectangular piece of printing paper, esp. one for printing a complete signature. |
| 9. | Philately. the impression from a plate or the like on a single sheet of paper before any division of the paper into individual stamps. |
| 10. | an extent, stretch, or expanse, as of fire or water: sheets of flame. |
| 11. | a thin, flat piece of metal or a very shallow pan on which to place food while baking. |
| 12. | Geology. a more or less horizontal mass of rock, esp. volcanic rock intruded between strata or poured out over a surface. |
| 13. | Mathematics.
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| 14. | Crystallography. a type of crystal structure, as in mica, in which certain atoms unite strongly in two dimensions to form a layer that is weakly joined to others. |
–verb (used with object)
| 15. | to furnish with a sheet or sheets. |
| 16. | to wrap in a sheet. |
| 17. | to cover with a sheet or layer of something. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME shete, OE scēte (north), scīete, deriv. of scēat corner, lap, sheet, region; c. D schoot, G Schoss, ON skaut
bef. 900; ME shete, OE scēte (north), scīete, deriv. of scēat corner, lap, sheet, region; c. D schoot, G Schoss, ON skaut

Related forms:
sheetless, adjective
sheetlike, adjective
sheet
2 [sheet]
–noun
| 1. | Nautical.
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–verb (used with object)
—Idiom| 2. | Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets. |
| 3. | three sheets in or to the wind, Slang. intoxicated. |
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Sheet
Sheet\, n. [OE. shete, schete, AS. sc[=e]te, sc[=y]te, fr. sce['a]t 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. sce['o]tan to shoot. [root]159. See 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. Specifically: (a) 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. 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. --Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. --Shak. (b) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. (c) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl., the book itself. To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer. --Waterland. (d) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf. (e) A broad expanse of water, or the like. "The two beautiful sheets of water." --Macaulay. (f) A sail. --Dryden. (g) (Geol.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. 2. [AS. sce['a]ta. See the Etymology above.] (Naut.) (a) 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. (b) pl. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. Note: 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. A sheet in the wind, half drunk. [Sailors' Slang] Both sheets in the wind, very drunk. [Sailors' Slang] In sheets, lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; -- said especially of printed sheets. Sheet bend (Naut.), a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye. Sheet lightning, Sheet piling, etc. See under Lightning, Piling, etc.Sheet
Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheeting.]1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." --Shak. 2. To expand, as a sheet. The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky. --J. R. Drake. To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.
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Language Translation for : sheet
Spanish:
sábana,
German:
das Laken,
Japanese:
シーツ
sheet (1)
O.E. sciete (W.Saxon), scete (Mercian) "cloth, covering," from P.Gmc. *skautijon, from base *skauta- "project" (cf. O.N. skaut "corner of cloth," Goth. skauts "seam, hem of a garment;" Du. schoot Ger. Schoß "bosom, lap"), from PIE base *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot). Sense of "piece of paper" first recorded 1510; that of "any broad, flat surface" (of metal, open water, etc.) is from 1592. Of falling rain from 1697. Meaning "a newspaper" is first recorded 1749. Sheet lightning is attested from 1794; sheet music is from 1857. Between the sheets "in bed" (usually with sexual overtones) is attested from 1599; to be white as a sheet is from 1751.
sheet (2)
"rope that controls a sail," O.E. sceatline "sheet-line," from sceata "lower part of sail," originally "piece of cloth," from same root as sheet (1) (q.v.). The sense transferred to the rope by 1294. This is probably the notion in phrase three sheets to the wind "drunk and disorganized," first recorded 1821, an image of a sloop-rigged sailboat whose three sheets have slipped through the blocks are lost to the wind, thus out of control.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: sheet
Pronunciation: 'shEt
Function: noun
1 : a broad piece of cloth; especially : an oblong of usually cotton or linencloth used as an article of bedding
2 : a portion of something that is thin in comparison to its length and breadth sheet of connective tissue>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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