sheet
/ʃit/ noun B1- Bedsheet; a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. · Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
- 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 papier-mâché, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent. · A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.· Paper is designated “20 pound” if a stack (ream) of 500 sheets 22 inches by 17 inches weighs 20 pounds.
- (originally referring to a printed document) A summary or record of key information, especially an official one; the information contained in such a document. · rap sheet, style sheet, material safety datasheet, balance sheet
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. · Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
- A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material. · The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.· A sheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as a sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.
- A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface. · Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!
- (Usually used in the plural) An expanse or intense wave of something fluid (such as fire or precipitation), conceptualized as hanging, suspended, falling, or moving in a particular direction.
- A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail. · To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.
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All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
The sheets were made of blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the blue rug beside her.
The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebière.
In an instant he was placed in the stern-sheets of the boat, between the gendarmes, while the officer stationed himself at the bow; a shove sent the boat adrift, and four sturdy oarsmen impelled it rapidly towards the Pilon.
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