sheet

sheet
I. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scīete; akin to Old English scēat edge, Old High German scōz 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 scēata lower corner of a sail; akin to Old English scȳte 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

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To expand, as …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • sheet — A complete, unseparated group of postage stamps as printed on a press. The sheet is usually perforated and cut into four or more panes for eventual sale …   Glossary of postal terms

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