sheet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large piece of thin cloth put on a bed under and over the sleeper.

   Use the clean sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.

2. 2
   noun

   A flat, rectangular piece of paper.

   She tore a fresh sheet of paper from her notebook.

3. 3
   noun

   A thin, flat piece of a solid material.

   The worker cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.

4. 4
   noun

   A wide, flat layer of something covering a surface.

   Overnight the rain froze into a sheet of ice on the road.

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 S…

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