Sheet

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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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