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1
a
large
piece
of
thin
cloth
used on a
bed
for
sleeping
on or under:
Examples:
I've put
clean
sheets
on the
bed
.
2
a
large
,
thin
,
flat
,
usually
rectangular
piece
of something:
Examples:
sheet of
glass
He used
huge
sheets
of
glass
to
create
floor-to-ceiling
transparent
walls
.
polythene/
plastic
sheet They
fixed
a polythene/
plastic
sheet over the
broken
window
.
3
a
piece
of
paper
:
Examples:
some
sheets
of
wrapping
paper
sheet of
paper
The
application
form
was a
single
sheet of
paper
.
4
a
piece
of
paper
with something
printed
on it:
Examples:
The
tourist
office
provides
a
weekly
information
sheet about things that are
happening
in the
town
.
5
a
large
,
wide
mass
of something such as
fire
or
ice
:
Examples:
sheet of
flame
A sheet of
flame
shot
up into the
air
immediately
after the
explosion
.
6
a
large
quantity
of
rain
:
Examples:
in
sheets
The
rain
was coming down in
sheets
.
7
to
rain
very hard:
Examples:
sheet down We can't go out yet, it's sheeting down outside.
sheet against
Rain
sheeted against the
windows
.
8
a
large
rectangular
piece
of
cloth
used to
cover
a
bed
, or a rectangular
piece
of any
material
, such as
paper
,
glass
, or
metal
:
Examples:
She made up the
bed
with
clean
sheets
.
Do you have a sheet of
paper
I could use?
She put the
dough
onto
cookie
sheets
.
9
A sheet is also a
thin
layer
of something:
Examples:
A sheet of
ice
formed
on the
puddles
.
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