sheet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
nautical
sports
transport
video-games
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”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).
Inflected forms:
form: sheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sheeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sheeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sheeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
pos: noun
examples: Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
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.
If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
pos: noun
examples: Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
gloss: A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.
pos: noun
examples: Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!
gloss: An expanse of something.
pos: noun
examples: […] heavy sheets of rain with heavy gusts at N.E.; […]
... sheets of fire could be seen. The air became intensely hot and they knew that the forest-fire was upon them.
... 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[…]
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[…]
gloss: A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A sail.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: Their folded Sheets dismiss the useless Air
gloss: The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
pos: noun
gloss: A layer of veneer.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
gloss: Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
pos: noun
gloss: The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
pos: noun
examples: fore sheets; stern sheets
gloss: A distinct level or stage within a game.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.
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.
gloss: To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.
Yea, like a stag, when snow the pasture sheets, / The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
gloss: To form into sheets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pour heavily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.
gloss: To trim a sail using a sheet.
pos: verb
Related words: hit the sheets
three sheets to the wind
under the sheets
white as a sheet
Derived words: answer sheet
a sheet in the wind
a sheet in the wind's eye
backsheet
baking sheet
balance the sheets
base sheet
bath sheet
beat sheet
bed sheet
bedsheet
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
chargesheet
charge sheet
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
fly sheet
flysheet
fly-sheet
foresheet
four-sheet
four sheets in the wind
four sheets to the wind
free-sheet
freesheet
free sheet
game sheet
gap sheet
groundsheet
handsheet
headsheet
helpsheet
history sheet
hit the sheets
hot sheet
hotsheet
hot-sheet motel
hymnsheet
ice-sheet
ice sheet
idiot sheet
infosheet
intersheet
jibsheet
jumping-sheet
lead sheet
letter sheet
logsheet
mainsheet
main sheet
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
sheet rock
sheetrock
sheet silicate
sheet slicer
sheetsman
sheet traveler
sheet traveller
sheet wash
sheet weaver
sheetwise
sheetwork
sheety
shitsheet
shmeat
shortsheet
short-sheet
short sheet
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
turnsheet
uncoated free sheet
undersheet
under the sheets
unsheet
votesheet
wagon-sheet
wagonsheet
winding sheet
winnow sheet
worksheet
worldsheet
β-pleated sheet
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: шкот
roman: škot
lang: Catalan
word: escota
lang: Danish
word: skøde
lang: Dutch
word: schoot
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝkoto
lang: Finnish
word: jalus
lang: Finnish
word: skuutti
lang: French
word: écoute
lang: German
word: Schot
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵיתָר
roman: meytar
lang: Hebrew
word: מֵיתַר קֶֶרֶן
roman: meytar keren
lang: Italian
word: scotta
lang: Macedonian
word: јаже
roman: jaže
lang: Māori
word: waha
lang: Middle English
word: schete
lang: Norman
word: êcoute
lang: Portuguese
word: escota
lang: Russian
word: шкот
roman: škot
lang: Spanish
word: escota
lang: Swedish
word: skot
lang: Tagalog
word: laskuta