Sheet

n.	1.	In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. 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. - Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. - Shak.
	2.	A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer. - Waterland.
	2.	(Naut.) 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. A sheet in the wind half drunk. Both sheets in the wind very drunk. In sheets lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; - said especially of printed sheets. Sheet bend (Naut.) a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye. Sheet lightning etc. See under Lightning, Piling, etc.
	3.	(Geol.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
v. t.	1.	To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. [imp. & p. p. Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheeting.]
	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 (Naut.) to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

Noun	1.	sheet - any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"
	2.	sheet - used for writing or printing Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper
	3.	sheet - bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs Synonyms: bed sheet
	4.	sheet - (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" Synonyms: plane
	5.	sheet - newspaper with half-size pages Synonyms: tabloid, rag
	6.	sheet - a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width Synonyms: flat solid
	7.	sheet - (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind Synonyms: mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud, tack
	8.	sheet - a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel Synonyms: sail, canvass, canvas
Verb	1.	sheet - come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"
	2.	sheet - cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"

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