sheet¹ /shēt/

1. A large wide expanse or thin piece of something
2. A large broad piece of cloth, esp for a bed, a penitent, or a corpse
3. A piece of paper, esp large and broad
4. A section of a book printed on one piece of paper, a signature
5. As much copy as will fill a sheet
6. A pamphlet, broadsheet, or newspaper
7. A sail (poetic)
8. A sill (intrusive sheet; geology)
9. Sheet rubber
10. One of the separate pieces or planes that make up a surface
11. Aircraft structural material under 6.35mm (0.25in) thick, thinner than ‘plate’

1. In the form of a sheet
2. Printed on a sheet

1. To wrap or cover with, or as if with, a sheet
2. To provide with sheets
3. To form into sheets

1. To form or run in a sheet
2. (of rain) to fall fast and heavily

sheetˈed adjective

1. Wrapped or covered with a sheet (esp of a corpse)
2. (eg of a cow) marked with a white band or belt
3. Spread out like a sheet

sheetˈing noun

1. Cloth for sheets
2. Protective boarding or metal covering
3. Formation into sheets

sheetˈy adjective

sheet copper, iron, lead, metal, rubber, tin, etc noun

Copper, iron, etc, in thin sheets

sheetˈ-feed transitive verb and noun

sheetˈ-feeder noun (computing and word processing)

A storage cassette that feeds single sheets of paper into a printer as required

sheetˈ-glass noun

A kind of crown glass made in a cylinder and flattened out

sheet lightning noun

The diffused appearance of distant lightning

sheet music noun

Music written or printed on (unbound) sheets

• signalmen
• signal peptide
• signals
• signal sequence
• signal-to-noise ratio
• signal-to-noise ratios
• signaries
• signary
• signatories
• signatory
• signature
• signatures
• signature tune
• signature tunes
• sign away
• signboard
• signboards
• signed
• signer
• signers
• signet
• signeted
• signeting
• signet ring
• signet rings