26984 words

sheet

9 definitions • 14 examples
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:

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

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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