Meaning of 'sheet' (Webster Dictionary)
- In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as
paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded
superficies.
- 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.
- A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded,
whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper,
etc.
- A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
- the book itself.
- A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other
substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a
leaf.
- A broad expanse of water, or the like.
- A sail.
- An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or
overlying, other strata.
- 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.
- The space in the forward or the after part of a boat
where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
- To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover
with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
- To expand, as a sheet.
Meaning of 'sheet' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- any broad thin expanse or surface
Meaning (2):
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
Example in sentence:- any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane;
- we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane
Meaning (3):
- cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping
Meaning (4):
- come down as if in sheets
Example in sentence:- The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon
Definition
[ v. t.]