sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːt/
ipa: /ʃit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: sheets
Etymology: From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”).
Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).
Senses: examples: text: Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:10-11:
text: If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
examples: text: A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.
text: Paper is designated “20 pound” if a stack (ream) of 500 sheets 22 inches by 17 inches weighs 20 pounds.
holonyms: signature
quire
meronyms: leaf
folium
page
glosses: 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. 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.
examples: text: Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
glosses: A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
examples: text: The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.
text: A sheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as a sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.
glosses: A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
examples: text: Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!
glosses: A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.
examples: text: […] heavy sheets of rain with heavy gusts at N.E.; […]
ref: 1855, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 514:
text: ... sheets of fire could be seen. The air became intensely hot and they knew that the forest-fire was upon them.
ref: 1908, Pillar of Fire, page 15:
text: ... sheets of light which appear to be formed by a source at one location for horizontal sheets and another location for vertical sheets . This is the direct result of the relative displacement of the two scanners along the optical axis[…]
ref: 1988, A Twin-mirrored Galvanometer Laser Light Sheet Generator:
text: Heavy sheets of rain dwindled to a slow, quiet drizzle as she pulled the car toward the front door of her store. By the time she stepped out of the car, the drizzle had turned into a scattering of flurries that wafted lazily in the air[…]
ref: 2020 October 26, Zoey Blair, The Cadence of Secrets, Rockville Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: An expanse of something.
examples: text: 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.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
examples: text: Their folded Sheets dismiss the useless Air
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
glosses: A layer of veneer.
glosses: Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
examples: text: fore sheets; stern sheets
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
examples: text: The gecko moves from left to right and you must catch him when he calls. […] On the second sheet you must stand under the Gecko in the tree and jump, and on the third sheet you must catch the Gecko's friend.
ref: 1983, "Program Printout: Gecko" (in Sinclair User, issue 21, page 95)
text: If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.
ref: 1984 February, Sinclair Programs:
text: What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.
ref: 1984, Chris Passey, Matthew Uffindell, “Run It Again”, in Crash, number 4:
topics: video-games
glosses: A distinct level or stage within a game.
Synonyms: sense: piece of paper
word: page
sense: line
word: rope
sense: expanse of material
word: blanket
sense: expanse of material
word: coat
sense: expanse of material
word: coating
sense: expanse of material
word: layer
Hyponyms: balance sheet
bedsheet
bivouac sheet
cap sheet
clean sheet
contour sheet
crime sheet
dope sheet
fitted sheet
miniature sheet
ref sheet
scandal sheet
scratch sheet
sheet music
souvenir sheet
tip sheet
top sheet
worksheet
yellow sheet
Coordinate terms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: thin layer of solid material
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: expanse of material
Derived terms: answer sheet
a sheet in the wind
a sheet in the wind's eye
baking sheet
balance the sheets
base sheet
bath sheet
beat sheet
bedsheet
bed sheet
beta-pleated sheet
beta sheet
between the sheets
blanket sheet
blank sheet
bleed-sheet
bottom sheet
brag sheet
broadsheet
bubble sheet
call sheet
cascading style sheet
charge sheet
chargesheet
cheat sheet
cheat-sheet
check sheet
clipsheet
coated felt sheet
codesheet
contact sheet
cookie sheet
coversheet
crib sheet
crown sheet
cue sheet
current sheet
cut sheet
damp sheet
data sheet
datasheet
dope-sheet
double sheet bend
draw sheet
dryer sheet
dustsheet
empty sheet
endsheet
facesheet
fact sheet
fast sheet
flat sheet
flowsheet
flysheet
fly-sheet
fly sheet
foresheet
four-sheet
four sheets in the wind
four sheets to the wind
freesheet
free sheet
free-sheet
game sheet
gap sheet
groundsheet
headsheet
helpsheet
history sheet
hit the sheets
hotsheet
hot sheet
hot-sheet motel
hymnsheet
ice-sheet
ice sheet
idiot sheet
infosheet
intersheet
jumping-sheet
lead sheet
letter sheet
logsheet
main sheet
mainsheet
marksheet
microsheet
minisheet
multisheet
nanosheet
new sheet
news sheet
oversheet
oversheeted
packsheet
paysheet
picnic sheet
playsheet
proof sheet
question sheet
rap sheet
refsheet
resheet
run sheet
sanding sheet
sand sheet
scan sheet
score-sheet
score sheet
scoresheet
second sheet
sheetable
sheetage
sheet anchor
sheet bend
sheet cake
sheeter
sheet erosion
sheetfed
sheet flood
sheet flow
sheetful
sheet iron
sheetless
sheetlet
sheet lightning
sheetlike
sheet-like
sheetline
sheet mask
sheet metal
sheet-metal
sheet of paper
sheet pan
sheet pile
sheet piling
sheet pizza
sheet protector
Sheetrock
sheetrock
sheet rock
sheet silicate
sheet slicer
sheetsman
sheet traveler
sheet traveller
sheet wash
sheet weaver
sheetwise
sheetwork
sheety
short sheet
short-sheet
shortsheet
silver sheet
silver-sheet
sing from the same hymn sheet
sing off the same hymn sheet
slip sheet
slip sheet paper
songsheet
split the sheets
spreadsheet
spritesheet
squawk sheet
start with a clean sheet
stern sheets
stock sheet
strike sheet
stylesheet
style sheet
style sheet language
swindle sheet
tasksheet
teamsheet
tear sheet
tearsheet
term sheet
three-sheet
three sheets
three sheets in the wind
three sheets to the wind
thrust sheet
thunder sheet
timesheet
time sheet
tipsheet
toposheet
uncoated free sheet
undersheet
under the sheets
unsheet
votesheet
wagon-sheet
wagonsheet
winding sheet
winnow sheet
worksheet
worldsheet
β-pleated sheet
Related terms: hit the sheets
three sheets to the wind
under the sheets
white as a sheet