1. Verb
In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
2. Verb
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.
3. Verb
A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
4. Verb
A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
5. Verb
the book itself.
6. Verb
A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
7. Verb
A broad expanse of water, or the like.
8. Verb
A sail.
9. Verb
An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
10. Verb
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.
11. Verb
The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
12. Verb
To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
13. Verb
To expand, as a sheet.
14. Noun
(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
15. Noun
a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
Vocabulary classified under History
16. Noun
newspaper with half-size pages
Vocabulary classified under Media and communication
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