Etymology : Middle English shete, from Old English scyte; akin to Old English scEat edge, Old High German scOz flap, skirt
Pronunciation : shEt
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. large rectangular piece of cloth used as a bed covering; thin layer or covering; thin rectangular object, panel, plate; piece of paper; broad expanse of something. cover with a sheet; wrap in a sheet; provide with sheets. sheet\sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. sheeting.].
2. to furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "the sheeted dead." "when snow the pasture sheets.".
3. to expand, as a sheet. the star shot flew from the welkin blue, as it fell from the sheeted sky. r. drake.
4. In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
5. 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.
6. A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
7. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; the book itself.
8. A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
9. A broad expanse of water, or the like.
10. A sail.
11. An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
12. 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.
13. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
14. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
15. To expand, as a sheet. bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs a line that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width used for writing or printing any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice" cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body" come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon".
16. 1. A sheet is a large rectangular piece of cotton or other cloth that you sleep on or cover yourself with in a bed. Once a week, a maid changes the sheets.
17. A sheet of paper is a rectangular piece of paper. a sheet of newspaper I was able to fit it all on one sheet.
18. You can use sheet to refer to a piece of paper which gives information about something. information sheets on each country in the world.
19. A sheet of glass, metal, or wood is a large, flat, thin piece of it. a cracked sheet of glass Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel.
20. A sheet of something is a thin wide layer of it over the surface of something else. a sheet of ice. a blue-grey sheet of dust.
21. as white as a sheet: see:
white see also balance sheet, broadsheet, dust sheet, fact sheet, groundsheet, news-sheet, scoresheet, spreadsheet, worksheet.
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