1. A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding. 2a. A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood. b. A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking. 3. A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse: a sheet of ice.4. A moving expanse: a sheet of flames.5. A newspaper, especially a tabloid. 6.Geology A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock. 7. A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated. 8.Mathematics A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.
VERB:
Inflected forms: sheet·ed, sheet·ing, sheets
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet. 2. To make into sheets.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To flow or fall in a sheet: rain sheeting against the windshield.
ADJECTIVE:
Being in the form of a sheet: sheet aluminum.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English schete, cloth, from Old English scte. See skeud- in Appendix I.
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