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  1. noun A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.
  2. noun A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.
  3. noun A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.
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  • On another sheet was a life-size face with a garish smile. —  THE LIGHTKEEPER
  • At the top of the sheet was a name and a phone number— Harry Sullivan. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • Nowhere on the sheet was there any listing for Constance Marie Haskell. —  Paradise Lost
  • The other sheet was the receipt for the donation of an organ with a description that seemed to match the one I had from Sergeyev. —  Kat Richardson - Greywalker 1 - Greywalker (v2.0)
  • At the bottom of the sheet was a bank routing number and specific, very clear instructions on how to wire the money via the Internet into the account. —  Step on a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
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paper ·  blanket ·  piece ·  plate ·  cloth ·  strip ·  box ·  page ·  curtain ·  coat ·  cover ·  card

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sheet:   sheeted ·  sheeting ·  sheets

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  1. Middle English schete, cloth, from Old English scēte; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English shete, from Old English scēat(line), sheet (line), from scēata, corner of a sail; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Under this form (early modern English also sheat) are merged three words of different formation, but of the same radical origin: (a) from Middle English shete, schete, scheete, ssete, from Anglo-Saxon scēte. scy¯te (not *scy¯ta as in Lye), plural scy¯tan, a sheet (of cloth); (b) from Middle English schete, from Anglo-Saxon scecáta, the foot of a sail (sceát-līne, a line from the foot of a sail, a sheet), =Middle Dutch *schote, Dutch schoot = Middle Low German schote, Low German schote, later G. schote, a line from the foot of a sail; the preceding being secondary forms of the more orig. noun; (c) from Middle English schete, scet, from Anglo-Saxon sceát, scēt, plural sceátas, sceáttas, scētas, a sheet (of cloth), a towel, the corner or fold of a garment, also a projecting angle (thry¯-sceát, three-cornered, etc.), a part (eorthan sceát, foldan sce´t, a portion of the earth, a region, the earth; sæmacr;s sce´t, a portion of the sea, a gulf, bay, etc.), = OFries. skāt, schāt, the fold of a garment, the lap, = Dutch schoot = Middle Low German schōt = Old High German scōz, also scōzo, scōza, Middle High German schōz, German schoss, schooss, the fold of a garment, lap, bosom, = Icelandic skaut, the corner of a square cloth or other object, a corner or quarter of the earth or heavens, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, the lap, bosom, a hood, = Swedish sköte = Danish skjöd, the flap of a coat, the lap, bosom, = Goth, skauts, the hem of a garment; apparently orig. in sense of ‘projecting corner,’ so called as jutting out, or less prob. from the resemblance to the head of a spear or arrow (cf. gore, a triangular piece of cloth or ground, ult. from Anglo-Saxon gār, spear); from the root of Anglo-Saxon sceótan (preterit sceát), etc., shoot: see shoot. The forms of these three groups show mixture with each other and with forms of shoot, n., and shot, n.
  2. from sheet, n.
 

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