Definition of Sheet

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Definition of Sheet

Sheet

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.

A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;

the book itself.

A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

A broad expanse of water, or the like.

A sail.

An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.

To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

To expand, as a sheet.

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Sheet Quotations

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
Roger Daltrey

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Brad Paisley

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
David R. Brower

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
Harold Acton

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
Brian May

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
Dick Dale

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
Dick Wolf

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
John Olver

Sheet Translations

sheet in Afrikaans is laken, plak
sheet in Danish is blad, lagen
sheet in Dutch is blad, vel
sheet in Finnish is lehti
sheet in French is feuille, drap de lit, drap
sheet in German is Bettuch, Blatt, Blatt
sheet in Italian is lenzuolo, falda, foglia
sheet in Norwegian is laken, blad
sheet in Swedish is lakan, ark, skot

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