Main Entry: ¹sheet

Pronunciation: \ˈshēt\

Function: noun

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

Date: before 12th century

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