Sheet Meaning

/ʃiːt/
B1

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nounA thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

nounA piece of paper, 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 or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.

You are as white as a sheet.
Bring me a sheet of paper, please.
She was clutching the sheet around her naked body.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She pulled a clean cotton ____ over the mattress to make the bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need another ____ of paper to finish writing the notes for the meeting.

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).

"He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:10-11:
"If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets." — c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
"[…] heavy sheets of rain with heavy gusts at N.E.; […]" — 1855, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 514:
"... sheets of fire could be seen. The air became intensely hot and they knew that the forest-fire was upon them." — 1908, Pillar of Fire, page 15:
"... sheets of light which appear to be formed by a source at one location for horizontal sheets and another location for vertical sheets . This is the direct result of the relative displacement of the two scanners along the optical axis[…]" — 1988, A Twin-mirrored Galvanometer Laser Light Sheet Generator:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
She pulled a clean cotton ____ over the mattress to make the bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I need another ____ of paper to finish writing the notes for the meeting.

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