sheet
noun/ʃiːt/
Слово англійською: sheet
Переклад sheet українською: а́ркуш, лист (папе́ру і т. д.), бля́ха, плита́ (метале́ва і т. д.), простиня́, простира́дло, лист (для випіка́ння), листови́й мета́л
Детальний опис
- a large piece of thin cloth used on a bed to lie on or lie under
- Have you changed the sheets (= put clean sheets on the bed)?
- He slid between the sheets and closed his eyes.
- white bed sheets
- a piece of paper for writing or printing on, etc. usually in a standard size
- sheet of something a clean/blank sheet of paper (= with no writing on it)
- a sheet of A4
- Start each answer on a fresh sheet.
- Pick up one of our free information sheets at reception.
- a flat thin piece of any material, normally square or rectangular
- sheet of something a sheet of glass/plastic/plywood/steel
- sheet metal (= metal that has been made into thin sheets)
- a wide flat area of something, covering the surface of something else
- sheet of something The road was covered with a sheet of ice.
- a large moving mass of fire or water
- a sheet of flame
- The rain was coming down in sheets (= very heavily).
- (specialist) a rope or chain fastened to the lower corner of a sail to hold it and to control the angle of the sail There are other compounds ending sheet. You will find them at their place in the alphabet.
on bed
of paper
flat thin piece
wide flat area
of fire/water
on sail
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 5 Old English scēte, scīete, of Germanic origin; related to the verb shoot in its primary sense ‘to project’.noun sense 6 Old English scēata ‘lower corner of a sail’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse skauti ‘kerchief’.
Idioms
a clean sheet/slate
- a record of your work or behaviour that does not show any mistakes or bad things that you have done
- No government operates with a completely clean sheet.
- They kept a clean sheet in the match (= no goals were scored against them).