SHEET
What does "SHEET" mean?
A large flat rectangular piece of fabric, paper, or other thin material.
Meanings
- A broad piece of cloth used on a bed, especially under or over a sleeper. She tucked the fresh sheet under the mattress with hospital corners.
- A single rectangular piece of paper. He tore a sheet from the notebook to write down the address.
- A broad, thin, continuous surface or expanse of something. A sheet of ice covered the whole pond by morning.
- A rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it. He hauled in the sheet and the boat heeled into the wind. technical
- To cover or fall in a broad continuous mass. Rain sheeted down the windscreen until he could barely see.
Did you know?
- In sailing, a 'sheet' is a rope, not the sail itself - which is why 'three sheets to the wind' means staggering drunk: with its control lines loose, a ship lurches like a sailor who can't walk straight.
Word origin
From Old English 'sciete' meaning a cloth or covering, from Proto-Germanic '*skautijon'; the nautical sense comes from a related Old English word 'sceata', the lower corner of a sail.
Remember it
SHEET shares its first three letters with SHEEN - both are smooth, flat, and catch the light.
A little poem
Snapped from the clothesline,
one white sheet fills with the wind-
a ghost learning flight.
haiku
What it teaches
A blank sheet intimidates only until the first mark; begin, and the emptiness becomes a draft.
Quick facts
What does SHEET mean?
A large flat rectangular piece of fabric, paper, or other thin material.
Is SHEET a valid word?
Yes — SHEET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SHEET?
SHEET has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SHEET come from?
From Old English 'sciete' meaning a cloth or covering, from Proto-Germanic '*skautijon'; the nautical sense comes from a related Old English word 'sceata', the lower corner of a sail.
What can SHEET teach us?
A blank sheet intimidates only until the first mark; begin, and the emptiness becomes a draft.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.