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Енглески

Систем

ен+нг=енг



Etymology

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

schete; partly from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

sċīete(“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

sċēata(“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

sċēat(“a corner, angle”); all from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски

*skautijǭ,*skautaz(“corner, wedge, lap”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

*(s)kewd-(“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate withNorth Frisianskut(“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisianskoat(“sheet; sail; lap”),Холандскиschoot(“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”),German Low GermanSchote(“a line from the foot of a sail”),НемачкиSchoß(“the fold of a garment, lap”),Шведскиsköt(“sheet”),Icelandicskaut(“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sheet (pluralsheets)

  1. A thin bedcloth used as acovering for amattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
    • Use thesheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
    • Bible, Acts x. 10, 11
      He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a greatsheet knit at the four corners.
    • Shakespeare
      If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those samesheets.
  2. A piece ofpaper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning orpaper mache, etc.
    • Asheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.
    • Paper is designated “20 pound” if a stack (ream) of 500sheets 22 inches by 17 inches weighs 20 pounds.
  3. A flat metalpan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
    • Place the rolls on the cookiesheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
  4. A thin, flatlayer of solid material.
    • Theglazer cut severalpanes from a largesheet of glass.
    • Asheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as asheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.
  5. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
    • Mud froze on the road in a solidsheet, then more rain froze into asheet of ice on top of the mud!
  6. (nautical) Aline (rope) used to adjust thetrim of asail.
    • To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by onesheet and thus the sail is useless.
  7. (nautical, nonstandard) Asail.
    (Можете липронађите и додајте цитат од Dryden на овај унос?)
  8. (curling) The area ofice on which the game ofcurling is played.
  9. (nonstandard) A layer ofveneer.
  10. (figurative) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
  11. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  12. (nautical) The space in theforward orafter part of aboat where there are norowers.
    foresheets; sternsheets

Synonyms

Hyponyms

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Coordinate terms

  • (thin layer of solid material):film
  • (expanse of material):film

Derived terms

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Related terms

Translations

bedsheet—seebedsheet
sheet of paper
sheet for baking
sheet of material
expanse of material on the ground
sail
rope to adjust sail
area on ice for curling game

References

Verb

sheet (third-person singular simple presentsheets,present participlesheeting,simple past and past participlesheeted)

  1. Tocover orwrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
    Remember tosheet the floor before you start painting.
    • Shakespeare
      Yea, like a stag, when snow the pasturesheets, / The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
  2. Of rain, or otherprecipitation, topour heavily.
    We couldn't go out because the rain wassheeting down all day long.
  3. (nautical) Totrim a sail using a sheet.

Translations

to cover or wrap
to pour heavily
to trim a sail

References

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