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Sheet
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sheet
[n] - any broad thin expanse or surface 2. [n] - used for writing or printing 3. [n] - a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width 4. [n] - a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind 5. [n] - bed linen consi...
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Sheet
A line used to trim sails.
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Sheet
A printer's unit; the full size of a paper when printed, forming the section of a book when folded
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Sheet
a rope
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Sheet
A single piece of paper. In poster work refers to the number of Double Crown sets in a full size poster.
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Sheet
Cover for material loaded on a road vehicle to keep hot-coated material warm and drystone material from being blown off in transit.
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Sheet
Sheet noun [ Middle English shete , schete , Anglo-Saxon scēte , scȳte , from sceát a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to Dutch schoot sheet, bosom, lap, German schoss bosom, ...
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Sheet
Sheet transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sheeted ; present participle & verbal noun Sheeting .] 1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, ...
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sheet
1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. 'The sheeted dead.' 'When snow the pasture sheets.' ... 2. To expand, as a sheet. 'The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky.' (J. R. Drake) To sheet home, to haul upon a shee...
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sheet
piece of paper noun used for writing or printing
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sheet
bed sheet noun bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
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sheet
noun any broad thin expanse or surface; `a sheet of ice`
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sheet
weather sheet noun (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
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sheet
noun a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
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Sheet
• (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. • (v. t.) 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. • (v...
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sheet
(from the article `materials science`) The similarity of meltable thermoplastic polymers to metals has prompted the extension of techniques used in metalworking. Sheet forming, used since ... The term copper strip as distinct from copper sheet is usually applied to material less than 60 centimetres ...
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sheet
(from the article `amphibole`) ...and amphiboles) has long been recognized. The structures of all of these silicates can be considered as consisting of combinations of two ... ...scientists including Charles Mauguin, Linus C. Pauling, W.W. Jackson, J. West, and John W. Gruner through the late 1920s ...
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sheet
(from the article `rigging`) ...or shortening sail are known as the running rigging. The running rigging is subdivided into the lifts, jeers, and halyards (haulyards), by which ...
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Sheet
a line used to control the sail
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Sheet
Sheet was British slang for a one pund note.
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Sheet
[sailing] In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail. ==Etymology== "Sheet" derives from Old English "scéata" meaning the lower corner of a sail. == Fore-and-aft rigs== Fore-and-aft rigs comprise the vast majority of sailing ...
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Sheet
Sheet was British slang for a one pund note.
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sheet
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- used for writing or printing
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its...
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sheet
a thin product in which the thickness is small in proportion to length and width NOTE - More specifically, the term sheet is used to designate individual pieces with length and width of the same order of magnitude, while sheeting is used for material in long continuous lengths, generally supplied in...
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sheet
a large thin cloth which can be spread on a bed
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