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 stamps3: 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