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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHEET, n. [L. schenda; Gr. The Greek and Latin words signify a table or plate for writing on; L. scindo, Gr.]
1. A broad piece of cloth used as part of bed-furniture.
2. A broad piece of paper as it comes from the manufacturer. Sheets of paper are of different sizes, as royal, demi, foolscap, pot and post-paper.
3. A piece of paper printed, folede and bound, or formed in to a book in blank, and making four, eight, sixteen or twenty-four pages, etc.
4. Any thing expanded; as a sheet of water or of fire; a sheet of copper, lead or iron.
5. Sheets, plu. a book or pamphlet. The following sheets contains a full answer to my opponent.
6. A sail.
SHEET, n. In nautical language, a rope fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side-wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened with a tackand a sheet.
SHEET, v.t.
1. To furnish with sheets. [Little used.]
2. To fold in a sheet. [Little used.]
3. To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin.
When snow the pasture sheets. Shak.
To sheet home, is to haul home a sheet, or extend the sail till the clew is close to the sheet-block.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"
2: paper used for writing or printing [syn: sheet, piece of paper, sheet of paper]
3: bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs [syn: sheet, bed sheet]
4: (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" [syn: plane, sheet]
5: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet]
6: a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width [syn: sheet, flat solid]
7: (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud]
8: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet] v
1: come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"
2: cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English sc?te, sc?ete; akin to Old English sc?at edge, Old High German sc?z flap, skirt Date: before 12th century 1. a. a broad piece of cloth; especially bedsheet b. sail 1a(1) 2. a. (1) a usually rectangular piece of paper; especially one manufactured for printing (2) a rectangular piece of heavy paper with a plant specimen mounted on it <an herbarium of 100,000 sheets> b. a printed signature for a book especially before it has been folded, cut, or bound — usually used in plural c. a newspaper, periodical, or occasional publication <a gossip sheet> d. the unseparated postage stamps printed by one impression of a plate on a single piece of paper; also a pane of stamps 3. a broad stretch or surface of something <a sheet of ice> 4. a suspended or moving expanse (as of fire or rain) 5. a. a portion of something that is thin in comparison to its length and breadth b. a flat baking pan of tinned metal <a cookie sheet> 6. a surface or part of a surface in which it is possible to pass from any one point of it to any other without leaving the surface <a hyperboloid of two sheets> • sheetlike adjective II. adjective Date: 1582 1. rolled or spread out in a sheet 2. of, relating to, or concerned with the making of sheet metal III. verb Date: 1606 transitive verb 1. to cover with a sheet <floors sheeted with dust> 2. to furnish with sheets 3. to form into sheets intransitive verb to fall, spread, or flow in a sheet <the rain sheeted against the windows> • sheeter noun IV. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English sc?ata lower corner of a sail; akin to Old English scy?te sheet Date: 13th century 1. a rope or chain that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind 2. plural the spaces at either end of an open boat not occupied by thwarts ; foresheets and stern sheets together V. transitive verb Date: 1925 to move or set (a sail) by manipulation of a sheet

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used esp. in pairs as inner bedclothes. 2 a a broad usu. thin flat piece of material (e.g. paper or metal). b (attrib.) made in sheets (sheet iron). 3 a wide continuous surface or expanse of water, ice, flame, falling rain, etc. 4 a set of unseparated postage stamps. 5 derog. a newspaper, esp. a disreputable one. 6 a complete piece of paper of the size in which it was made, for printing and folding as part of a book. --v. 1 tr. provide or cover with sheets. 2 tr. form into sheets. 3 intr. (of rain etc.) fall in sheets. Phrases and idioms: sheet lightning a lightning flash with its brightness diffused by reflection. sheet metal metal formed into thin sheets by rolling, hammering, etc. sheet music music published in cut or folded sheets, not bound. Etymology: OE scete, sciete f. Gmc 2. n. 1 a rope or chain attached to the lower corner of a sail for securing or controlling it. 2 (in pl.) the space at the bow or stern of an open boat. Phrases and idioms: flowing sheets sheets eased for free movement in the wind. sheet anchor 1 a second anchor for use in emergencies. 2 a person or thing depended on in the last resort. sheet bend a method of temporarily fastening one rope through the loop of another. Etymology: ME f. OE sceata, ON skaut (as SHEET(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sheets) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A sheet is a large rectangular piece of cotton or other cloth that you sleep on or cover yourself with in a bed. Once a week, a maid changes the sheets. N-COUNT 2. A sheet of paper is a rectangular piece of paper. ...a sheet of newspaper... I was able to fit it all on one sheet. N-COUNT 3. You can use sheet to refer to a piece of paper which gives information about something. ...information sheets on each country in the world. N-COUNT: usu n N 4. A sheet of glass, metal, or wood is a large, flat, thin piece of it. ...a cracked sheet of glass... Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel... N-COUNT: usu N of n 5. A sheet of something is a thin wide layer of it over the surface of something else. ...a sheet of ice. ...a blue-grey sheet of dust. N-COUNT: usu N of n 6. as white as a sheet: see white see also balance sheet, broadsheet, dust sheet, fact sheet, groundsheet, news-sheet, scoresheet, spreadsheet, worksheet

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shet. See DRESS; compare Ac 10:11, "as it were a great sheet" (othone).

Moby Thesaurus

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