1. Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of thin soft material made with cotton, polycotton, etc.
   "She changed the bed sheets weekly for hygiene";
   - bed sheet, bedsheet
    
2. Paper used for writing or printing
   "The printer loaded a fresh sheet of paper";
   - piece of paper, sheet of paper
    
3. Any broad thin expanse or surface
   "a sheet of ice"
    
4. A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
   "The engineer designed the component as a sheet to save space";
   - flat solid
    
5. A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
   "The sheet billowed in the wind";
   - sail, canvas
    
6. Newspaper with half-size pages
   "The local sheet reported on community events";
   - tabloid, rag [informal]
    
7. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
   "we will refer to the sheet of the graph as the X-Y plane";
   - plane
    
8. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
   "The sailor adjusted the sheet to trim the mainsail for optimal performance";
   - tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud

1. Come down as if in sheets
   "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"
    
2. Cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping
   "sheet the body"

Derived forms: sheeted, sheeting, sheets

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bed linen, belt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], cover, expanse, form, line, newspaper, paper, pelt, pelt down [informal], piece of cloth, piece of material, pour, rain buckets [informal], rain cats and dogs [informal], shape, teem [informal], tip [Brit, informal]

Part of: sailing ship, sailing vessel, ship

Encyclopedia: Sheet, Shropshire