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- 1 A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, previously in Petersfield parish (OS grid ref SU7524).
- 2 A small village in Ludford parish, next to Ludlow, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5374).
- 1 A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
"Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed."
- 2 Euphemistic form of shit. euphemistic, form-of, slang, uncountable
"This sheet is disgusting!"
- 3 a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel wordnet
- 4 A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.
"A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce."
- 5 bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs wordnet
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- 6 A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
"Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes."
- 7 (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind wordnet
- 8 A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
"The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass."
- 9 a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width wordnet
- 10 A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.
"Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!"
- 11 paper used for writing or printing wordnet
- 12 An expanse of something.
"[…] heavy sheets of rain with heavy gusts at N.E.; […]"
- 13 newspaper with half-size pages wordnet
- 14 A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
"To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless."
- 15 any broad thin expanse or surface wordnet
- 16 A sail. nonstandard
"Their folded Sheets dismiss the useless Air"
- 17 (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape wordnet
- 18 The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- 19 A layer of veneer. nonstandard
- 20 Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall. figuratively
- 21 An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- 22 The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
"fore sheets; stern sheets"
- 23 A distinct level or stage within a game. dated
"The gecko moves from left to right and you must catch him when he calls. […] On the second sheet you must stand under the Gecko in the tree and jump, and on the third sheet you must catch the Gecko's friend."
- 1 To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material. transitive
"Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting."
- 2 cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping wordnet
- 3 To form into sheets. transitive
- 4 come down as if in sheets wordnet
- 5 To pour heavily. intransitive
"We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long."
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- 6 To trim a sail using a sheet.
Etymology
From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).
From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).
A minced oath of shit.
From Old English sceat (“corner”).
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