Definitions for sheet

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IPA: /ʃit/

Sheet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in sheet (eehst).

Definitions for sheet

noun

1. a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
2. a broad, relatively thin, surface, layer, or covering.
3. a relatively thin, usually rectangular form, piece, plate, or slab, as of photographic film, glass, metal, etc.
4. material, as metal or glass, in the form of broad, relatively thin pieces.
5. a sail, as on a ship or boat.
6. a rectangular piece of paper or parchment, especially one on which to write.
7. a newspaper or periodical.
8. Printing and Bookbinding. a large, rectangular piece of printing paper, especially one for printing a complete signature.
9. Philately. the impression from a plate or the like on a single sheet of paper before any division of the paper into individual stamps.
10. an extent, stretch, or expanse, as of fire or water:
11. a thin, flat piece of metal or a very shallow pan on which to place food while baking.
12. Geology. a more or less horizontal mass of rock, especially volcanic rock intruded between strata or poured out over a surface.
13. Mathematics. one of the separate pieces making up a geometrical surface: one of the planes or pieces of planes making up a Riemann surface.
14. Crystallography. a type of crystal structure, as in mica, in which certain atoms unite strongly in two dimensions to form a layer that is weakly joined to others.
15. Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.

Idioms

1. three sheets in / to the wind, Slang. intoxicated.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a sheet or sheets.
2. to wrap in a sheet.
3. to cover with a sheet or layer of something.
4. Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.

Origin of sheet

before 900; Middle English shete, Old English scēte (north), scīete, derivative of scēat corner, lap, sheet, region; cognate with Dutch schoot, German Schoss, Old Norse skaut

Examples for sheet

You are all in a flush, now, and have lain down this sheet and said aloud: 'What an idea!

Place one sheet of phyllo on the board, brush it with butter, and sprinkle it with ¾ teaspoon of bread crumbs.

And then she saw, on the sofa at one side of the place, a human form under a sheet.

But you are ill, I know you are, you are as white as a sheet.

“Hard hat…heavy jacket…welding gloves…fish landing net…a sheet…a big Tupperware bin with a lid,” he says.

Pat the chicken dry with paper towels, place on a sheet pan, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Some are, as you see, upon one sheet, and some are in many pieces which may fasten together.

It was evident that, in other seasons, this place was a sheet of water.

Place the package, folded side up, on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.

She went as calm as a hooded falcon after he covered her head with the sheet.