sheet1

noun

• 1a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed to cover the mattress and as a layer beneath blankets when these are used.
• used in comparisons to describe the pallor of a person who is ill or has had a shock:Are you OK? You’re as white as a sheet
• a broad flat piece of material such as metal or glass:the small pipe has been formed from a flat sheet of bronze

• 2a rectangular piece of paper, especially one of a standard size produced commercially and used for writing and printing on:a sheet of unmarked paper
• a quantity of text or other information contained on a sheet of paper:he produced yet another sheet of figures
• a flat piece of paper as opposed to a reel of continuous paper, the bound pages of a book, or a folded map.
• all the postage stamps printed on one piece of paper:a sheet of stamps
• a map, especially one part of a series covering a larger area.

• 3an extensive unbroken surface area of something:a sheet of ice
• a broad moving mass of flames or water:the rain was still falling in sheets

verb

• 1 [with object] cover with or wrap in a sheet or sheets:we sheeted a narrow bed

• 2 [no object] (of rain) fall in large quantities:rain sheeted down