sheet

Primary Meanings of sheet

1.	n v	any broad thin expanse or surface come down as if in sheets
2.	n v	bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping
3.	n	(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
4.	n	paper used for writing or printing
5.	n	(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

Full Definitions of sheet

n any broad thin expanse or surface

“a sheet of ice”

Type of:: expanse
a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

Synonyms:: flat solid

Types:: show 74 types...; hide 74 types...; blackboard, chalkboard
sheet of slate; for writing with chalk; blank
a piece of material ready to be made into something; board
a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; film, plastic film
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things; laminate
a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers; membrane
a thin pliable sheet of material; panel
sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something; plate
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic; photographic plate, plate
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded; plate glass, sheet glass
glass formed into large thin sheets; sheet metal
sheet of metal formed into a thin plate; stencil
a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below; aquaplane
a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water; baffle, baffle board
a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy; bread board, breadboard
a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced; bulletin board, notice board
a board that hangs on a wall; displays announcements; chopping board, cutting board
a wooden board where meats or vegetables can be cut; caisson, coffer, lacuna
an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome; corrugated iron
usually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows; cover glass, cover slip
a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide; cylinder head
a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump; damper
a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace; disc, disk
a flat circular plate; drafting board, drawing board
a smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings; drainboard, draining board
a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink; drumhead, head
a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum; engraving
a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved; escutcheon
(nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed; fin keel
a metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stability; fishplate
metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams; flashing
sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing; floor board, floorboard
a board in the floor; foil
a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; footboard
a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead; gel, gelatin
a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects; grid, storage-battery grid
a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material; gusset, gusset plate
a metal plate used to strengthen a joist; headboard
a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead; ironing board
narrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes; kneeler
a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on; lamella
thin plate; license plate, numberplate
a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number; L-plate
a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner; hawk, mortarboard
a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar; nameplate
a plate bearing a name; palette, pallet
board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used; pane, pane of glass, window glass
sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors; pane, paneling, panelling
a panel or section of panels in a wall or door; planchette
a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages; plastic laminate
a laminate made by bonding plastic layers; plate iron
a plate of iron; platen
the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type; plessimeter, pleximeter
a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations; plyboard, plywood
a laminate made of thin layers of wood; Polaroid
(trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare; quarter plate
a photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches; scoreboard
a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information); shrink-wrap
the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something; sideboard
a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib; sideboard
a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity; skateboard
a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot; microscope slide, slide
a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study; snowboard
a board that resembles a broad ski or a small surfboard; used in a standing position to slide down snow-covered slopes; springboard
a flexible board for jumping upward; surfboard
a narrow buoyant board for riding surf; tap
a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing); tin plate, tinplate
a thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins; trencher
a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved; wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting
wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room; dado, wainscot
panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall; wake board, wakeboard
a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat; dry wall, drywall, wallboard
a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses; window
a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material; work-board, workboard
a horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work

Type of:: artefact, artifact
a man-made object taken as a whole

v come down as if in sheets

“The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon”

Type of:: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
rain heavily

n bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

Synonyms:: bed sheet

Types:: contour sheet, fitted sheet
a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress

Type of:: bed linen
linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases)

n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

Synonyms:: canvas, canvass, sail

Types:: show 26 types...; hide 26 types...; balloon sail
any light loose sail; crossjack, mizzen course
the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast; fore-and-aft sail
any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction; foresail
the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel; headsail
any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel; mainsail
the lowermost sail on the mainmast; main-topsail
a topsail set on the mainmast; press of canvas, press of sail
the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely; royal
a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast; save-all
a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail; skysail
the sail above the royal on a square-rigger; square sail
a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast; topgallant, topgallant sail
a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast; topsail
a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast; fore-topsail
the topsail on a foremast; gaff-headed sail, gaffsail
a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff; fore-and-aft topsail, gaff topsail
a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast; jib
any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast); lateen, lateen sail
a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean; lug, lugsail
a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast; main course
a square mainsail; mizen, mizzen
fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast; spanker
a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel; spinnaker
a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind; spritsail
a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit; staysail
a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts)

Type of:: piece of cloth, piece of material
a separate part consisting of fabric

v cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping

“sheet the body”

Type of:: cover
provide with a covering or cause to be covered

n (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

Synonyms:: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet

Types:: futtock shroud
shroud that is part of a ship's rigging

Type of:: line
something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible

n paper used for writing or printing

Synonyms:: piece of paper, sheet of paper

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; slip, slip of paper
a small sheet of paper; signature
a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book; folio, leaf
a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book); tear sheet
a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication; foolscap
a size of paper used especially in Britain; style sheet
a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication; worksheet
a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements; revenue stamp, stamp
a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid; flyleaf
a blank leaf in the front or back of a book; interleaf
a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book; page
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

Type of:: paper
a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

n newspaper with half-size pages

Synonyms:: rag, tabloid

Type of:: newspaper, paper
a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

n (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

Synonyms:: plane

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; Cartesian plane
a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates; facet plane
the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube); midline, midplane
the median plane of the body (or some part of the body); orbital plane
(astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting; picture plane
the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work; tangent plane
the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface

Type of:: form, shape
the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance

Primary Meanings of sheet

n any broad thin expanse or surface

n a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

v come down as if in sheets

n bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

v cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping

n (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

n paper used for writing or printing

n newspaper with half-size pages

n (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

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