Synonyms for sheet

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sheet

Phonetic Transcription : ʃit

Top 10 synonyms for sheet

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Définition of sheet

Origin : Old English sciete (West Saxon), scete (Mercian) "cloth, covering, towel, shroud," from Proto-Germanic *skautjon-, from *skauta- "project" (cf. Old Norse skaut, Gothic skauts "seam, hem of a garment;" Dutch schoot; German Schoß "bosom, lap"), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot (v.)).
Sense of "piece of paper" first recorded c.1500; that of "any broad, flat surface" (of metal, open water, etc.) is from 1590s. Of falling rain from 1690s. Meaning "a newspaper" is first recorded 1749. Sheet lightning is attested from 1794; sheet music is from 1857. Between the sheets "in bed" (usually with sexual overtones) is attested from 1590s; to be white as a sheet is from 1751. The first element in sheet-anchor (late 15c.) appears to be a different word, of unknown origin.

noun coating, covering; page

Example sentences :

And then she saw, on the sofa at one side of the place, a human form under a sheet.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

It was evident that, in other seasons, this place was a sheet of water.
Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

But you are ill, I know you are, you are as white as a sheet.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

You are all in a flush, now, and have lain down this sheet and said aloud: 'What an idea!
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

Some are, as you see, upon one sheet, and some are in many pieces which may fasten together.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

She was back again in the stuffy hotel room, clutching the sheet about her.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Linda laid the sheet on the table and dropped her hands on top of it.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

And if I had seen a sheet flying around the yard I would have picked it up.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

She had had a forlorn hope that he would throw down the sheet; but he did not.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

He could not have helped realizing that any sheet of plans he found there must have been yours.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

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