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sheet

1  [sheet]
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–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.
a. one of the separate pieces making up a geometrical surface: a hyperboloid of two sheets.
b. one of the planes or pieces of planes making up a Riemann surface.
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

Related forms:
sheetless, adjective
sheetlike, adjective
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sheet

2  [sheet]
–noun
1. Nautical.
a. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard.
b. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail.
c. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
–verb (used with object)
2. Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.
—Idiom
3. three sheets in or to the wind, Slang. intoxicated.
Origin:
1300–50; ME shete, shortening of OE scēatlīne, equiv. to scēat(a) lower corner of a sail (see sheet 1 ) + līne line 1 , rope; c. LG schote
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sheet 1   (shēt)   
n.  
  1. A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.
    1. A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.
    2. A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.
  3. A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse: a sheet of ice.
  4. A moving expanse: a sheet of flames.
  5. A newspaper, especially a tabloid.
  6. Geology A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.
  7. A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.
  8. Mathematics A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.
v.   sheet·ed, sheet·ing, sheets

v.   tr.
  1. To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.
  2. To make into sheets.
v.   intr.
To flow or fall in a sheet: rain sheeting against the windshield.
adj.  Being in the form of a sheet: sheet aluminum.

[Middle English schete, cloth, from Old English scēte; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]
sheet 2   (shēt)   
n.  
  1. A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.
  2. sheets The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.
intr.v.   sheet·ed, sheet·ing, sheets
To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.

[Middle English shete, from Old English scēat(line), sheet (line), from scēata, corner of a sail; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]
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