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Definition of Sheet

Sheet

  1. In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
  2. 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.
  3. A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
  4. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
  5. the book itself.
  6. A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
  7. A broad expanse of water, or the like.
  8. A sail.
  9. An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  10. 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.
  11. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
  12. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
  13. To expand, as a sheet.

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

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.
Paul Ryan

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
Manmohan Singh
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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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