Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.
  • noun The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.
  • intransitive verb To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.
  • idiom (to/in) Intoxicated; drunk.
  • noun A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.
  • noun A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.
  • noun A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.
  • noun A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse.
  • noun A moving expanse.
  • noun A newspaper, especially a tabloid.
  • noun Geology A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.
  • noun A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.
  • noun Mathematics A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.
  • intransitive verb To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.
  • intransitive verb To make into sheets.
  • intransitive verb To flow or fall in a sheet.
  • adjective Being in the form of a sheet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To furnish with sheets: as, a sheeted c ouch.
  • To fold in a sheet; shroud; cover with or as with a sheet.
  • To form into sheets; arrange in or as in sheets.
  • noun plural A commercial name for crude rubber in thin pieces formed by coagulating the latex on a large leaf. See rubber, 3.
  • noun In geology: A mass of eruptive rock of great length and breadth as compared with its thickness. Two principal varieties are recognized: surface flows, which are poured out on the surface of the earth, and intruded or intrusive sheets, which are forced between relatively horizontal strata
  • noun A deposit of any material, sedimentary or other, which has great areal extent and small thickness.
  • An old variant of shoot, used in sheet-anchor, and common in dialectal speech.
  • noun A large square or rectangular piece of linen or cotton spread over a bed, under the covers, next to the sleeper: as, to sleep between sheets.
  • noun In general, a broad, usually flat, and relatively thin piece of anything, either very flexible, as linen, paper, etc., or less flexible, or rigid, as lead, tin, iron, glass, etc. (a plate).
  • noun One of the separate pieces, of definite size, in which paper is made; the twenty-fourth part of a quire. In the printing-trade the sheet is more clearly defined by naming its size: as, a sheet of cap or a sheet of royal (see sizes of paper, under paper); in bookbinding the sheet is further defined by specifying its fold: as, a sheet of quarto or a sheet of duodecimo.
  • noun A newspaper: so called as being usually printed on a large piece of paper and folded.
  • noun plural Leaves and pages, as of a book or a pamphlet.
  • noun In mathematics, a separate portion of a surface, analogous to the branch of a curve; especially, one of the planes of a Riemann's surface.
  • noun [Sheet is often used in composition to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets or thin plates: as, sheet-iron, sheet-glass, sheet-tin.]
  • noun A broad expanse or surface: as, a sheet of water, of ice, or of flame.
  • noun A sail.
  • noun Nautical, a rope or chain fastened to one or both of the lower corners of a sail to extend it and hold it extended, or to change its direction.
  • noun In anatomy and zoology, a layer; a lamina or lamella, as of any membranous tissue.
  • noun In mining, galena in thin and continuous masses. The ore itself is frequently called sheet-mineral.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
  • transitive verb To expand, as a sheet.
  • transitive verb (Naut.) to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.
  • noun 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.
  • noun A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
  • noun A single signature of a book or a pamphlet
  • noun A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance.
  • noun A broad expanse of water, or the like.
  • noun A sail.
  • noun (Geol.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  • noun 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.
  • noun The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English shete, from Old English scēat(line), sheet (line), from scēata, corner of a sail; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English schete, cloth, from Old English scēte; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • a difficulty in procuring a pailful for wetting the sheet -- give your patient a _dripping sheet_ instead, which, in most cases, will do as well; or, should there be a want of a wash-tub to give it in, a _rubbing sheet_ may supply the bath.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

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    MGM China Plans up to $1.5 Billion HK IPO Prudence Ho 2011

  • HONG KONG— China Everbright Bank Co. is set to raise around $6 billion from its Hong Kong initial public offering—lower than its original target—ahead of a share listing July 15, according to a term sheet seen Tuesday, in what is likely to be one of the biggest IPOs in the city this year.

    Everbright Lowers Target for Hong Kong IPO Prudence Ho 2011

  • South Korean food and bio-product manufacturer CJ CheilJedang Corp. plans to sell three-year offshore yuan bonds, the latest company to tap the "dim sum" bond market, according to a term sheet seen by Dow Jones Newswires Monday, in what could become the first yuan bond issue from a Korean borrower.

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  • Everbright Bank, whose IPO was approved by regulators in Hong Kong and China last week, will begin the sale of the retail tranche—accounting for 5% of the offer—on July 4, the term sheet said.

    Everbright Lowers Target for Hong Kong IPO Prudence Ho 2011

  • China International Capital Corp. is the sole lead manager and bookrunner for the deal, the term sheet said.

    Hong Kong Airlines to Issue Yuan Bonds Fiona Law 2011

  • The roadshow for the airline's bonds started in Hong Kong Friday, and continues in Singapore Monday before ending back in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the term sheet said.

    Hong Kong Airlines to Issue Yuan Bonds Fiona Law 2011

  • J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley are the joint sponsors on the deal, the term sheet said.

    MGM China Plans up to $1.5 Billion HK IPO Prudence Ho 2011

  • HONG KONG—Hong Kong Airlines Ltd. plans to sell offshore yuan-denominated bonds, according to a term sheet seen by Dow Jones Newswires Monday, which would make it the first airline to tap the so-called dim sum bond market.

    Hong Kong Airlines to Issue Yuan Bonds Fiona Law 2011

  • Everbright Bank will offer 10.5 billion shares in the IPO, with an overallotment option of an additional 1.5 billion shares, the term sheet said, and the lender will price the deal July 8.

    Everbright Lowers Target for Hong Kong IPO Prudence Ho 2011

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    - 'Angels And Demons', Dan Brown.

    February 26, 2008