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The Meaning of sheet
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(v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
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(v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
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(v. t.) the book itself.
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(v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
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(v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
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(v. t.) A sail.
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(v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
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(v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
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(v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
Synonyms
piece of paper
,
sheet of paper
,
bed sheet
,
plane
,
tabloid
,
rag
,
flat solid
,
tack
,
mainsheet
,
weather sheet
,
shroud
,
sail
,
canvas
,
canvass
Rhymes
amit
,
athlete
,
backseat
,
beat
,
beet
,
bittersweet
,
bleat
,
bradstreet
,
breit
,
bridgette
,
browbeat
,
buckwheat
,
bufete
,
cheat
,
cleat
,
cliett
,
compete
,
complete
,
conceit
,
concrete
,
crabmeat
,
crete
,
deadbeat
,
deceit
,
defeat
,
delete
,
deplete
,
discreet
,
discrete
,
downbeat
,
drumbeat
,
eat
,
effete
,
elite
,
excrete
,
feat
,
feet
,
fleet
,
freet
,
gamete
,
gleet
,
greet
,
grete
,
heartbeat
,
heat
,
incomplete
,
indiscreet
,
jobete
,
keitt
,
kriete
,
lalit
,
lanete
,
leet
,
leete
,
leite
,
longstreet
,
margarete
,
marguerite
,
marquerite
,
meat
,
meet
,
mesquite
,
mete
,
mincemeat
,
mistreat
,
murveit
,
neat
,
neet
,
noncompete
,
obsolete
,
offbeat
,
overeat
,
overheat
,
parakeet
,
peat
,
peet
,
peete
,
pete
,
petite
,
piet
,
piette
,
pleat
,
puneet
,
quiett
,
receipt
,
repeat
,
replete
,
retreat
,
seat
,
secrete
,
shumeet
,
skeat
,
skeet
,
skeete
,
sleet
,
spreadsheet
,
st
,
street
,
suite
,
sweatt
,
sweet
,
swete
,
teat
,
teet
,
threatt
,
threet
,
thweatt
,
treat
,
tweet
,
uncomplete
,
unseat
,
upbeat
,
vanvliet
,
veit
,
vliet
,
wheat
,
worksheet