sheet

¹sheet

noun \ˈshēt\

Definition of SHEET

1

a : a broad piece of cloth; especially : bedsheet b : sail 1a(1)

2

a (1) : a usually rectangular piece of paper; especially : one manufactured for printing (2) : a rectangular piece of heavy paper with a plant specimen mounted on it <an herbarium of 100,000 sheets> b : a printed signature for a book especially before it has been folded, cut, or bound —usually used in plural c : a newspaper, periodical, or occasional publication <a gossip sheet> d : the unseparated postage stamps printed by one impression of a plate on a single piece of paper; also : a pane of stamps

3

: a broad stretch or surface of something <a sheet of ice>

4

: a suspended or moving expanse (as of fire or rain)

5

a : a portion of something that is thin in comparison to its length and breadth b : a flat baking pan of tinned metal <a cookie sheet>

6

: a surface or part of a surface in which it is possible to pass from any one point of it to any other without leaving the surface <a hyperboloid of two sheets>

— sheet·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective

Origin of SHEET

Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scīete; akin to Old English scēat edge, Old High German scōz flap, skirt

First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with SHEET

beat, beet, bleat, cheat, cleat, Crete, deet, eat, feat, fleet, Geat, gleet, greet, heat, lied, meat, meet, mete, neat, peat, pleat, seat, skeet, sleet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, weet, wheat