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   sheet

   /ʃiːt/

   noun

   • 1. a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed to cover the mattress and as a layer beneath blankets when these are used. Similar bed linenlinenbedclothes
   • 2. a rectangular piece of paper, especially one of a standard size produced commercially and used for writing and printing on: "a sheet of unmarked paper" Similar piece of paperleafpagefolio
   • ▪ a quantity of text or other information contained on a sheet of paper: "he produced yet another sheet of figures"
   • ▪ a flat piece of paper as opposed to a reel of continuous paper, the bound pages of a book, or a folded map.
   • ▪ all the postage stamps printed on one piece of paper: "a sheet of 1p stamps"
   • ▪ a map, especially one part of a series covering a larger area.
   • 3. a broad flat piece of material such as metal or glass: "the small pipe has been formed from a flat sheet of bronze" Similar panepanelpieceplateslab
   • 4. an extensive unbroken surface area of something: "Loch Affric is a lovely sheet of water among trees" Similar layerstratumcoveringblanketcoatingcoatoverlaylaminalaminationveneerfilmskinmembraneexpanseareastretchsweep
   • ▪ a broad moving mass of flames or water: "the rain was still falling in sheets"

   verb

   • 1. cover with or wrap in a sheet of cloth: "lorry drivers don't sheet their loads"
   • 2. (of rain) fall in large quantities: "rain sheeted down"

   Word Origin Old Englishscēte, scīete, of Germanic origin; related to the verb shoot in its primary sense ‘to project’.

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