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Sheet

Definition: Sheet

Sheet

Noun

1. Any broad thin expanse or surface: "a sheet of ice".

2. Used for writing or printing.

3. Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs.

4. (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane".

5. Newspaper with half-size pages.

6. A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width.

7. A line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.

8. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.

Verb

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sheet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sheet

DomainDefinition

Transportation

The narrower widths of lighter gauge flat rolled steels. Source: European Union. (references)

Engineering & Technology

A line that controls the set of the sails. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Obtained by fusion and filtering which purifies the gum. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

At the end of picking operation, the fibers are spread out in -- form, collected in a batting on a roller, and removed as a lap ready for carding. Source: European Union. (references)
 A single sheet of veneer, or several sheets laid side by side with adjoining edges that may or may not be glued, forming one layer in a piece of plywood. Source: European Union. (references)
 Rectangular piece, the length and width of which are considerably greater than the thickness. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

Sheet metal of rectangular form whose length and breadth are not significantly different. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A general term for a tabular igneous intrusion, e.g., dike and sill, esp. if concordant or only slightly discordant. CF:intrusive vei b. A term used in the Upper Mississippi lead-mining region of the United States for galena occurring in thin, continuous masses e.g., dike and sill, esp. if concordant or only slightly discordant. CF:intrusive vei. (references)

Public Administration

Printed paper sheet put on wrapper in wrapping the lamp. Source: European Union. (references)

Sports & Leisure

Curling is a game played on a level sheet of ice. Two four-man rinks. . . compete on a sheet of ice that is 146 feet long and 14 feet wide. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sheet

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
sht mtlEnglishSheet metalN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Sheet

Synonyms: bed sheet (n), canvas (n), canvass (n), flat solid (n), mainsheet (n), piece of paper (n), plane (n), rag (n), sail (n), sheet of paper (n), shroud (n), tabloid (n), tack (n), weather sheet (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: in-band (european union, transportation), steel-plated (building & civil engineering, transportation).

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Synonyms within Context: Sheet

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Book

Paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream

Covering

Coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore.

Layer

Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sheet

English words defined with "sheet": contour sheetfitted sheet, Flowing sheet, fly sheetlead sheetPacking sheetSheet cable, Sheet chain, sheet lighting, sheet metal, style sheettear sheet, To sheet home, Token sheet, Tympan sheetWinding sheet. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sheet": Antarctic Ice SheetBACK SHEET, balance sheet total, balance sheet valuecone sheet, curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, CUTTER, ALUMINUM SHEETdeflector sheetFACE SHEET, Farm income and balance sheetGreenland Ice Sheetice sheetmap sheet, master sheet, metal sheetnormal balance sheetpattern sheet, post balance sheet eventquake sheetsheet drying conveyor, sheet flow, sheet gauge, Sheet Iron, sheet mica, sheet pile wall, sheet pilings, sheet splitting, sheet taker, sheet thickness, SHEET TURNER, starting sheet, stencil sheet, SUPERVISOR, ASBESTOS-CEMENT SHEETtitle sheet, trimmed sheetuntrimmed sheetveneer sheet, veneered panel and sheetWakefield sheet pile, West Antarctic Ice Sheet. (references)
Etymologies containing "sheet": Nappe. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sheet

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've memorized this tune, luv. Think I have the sheet music (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney)

You oughta buy yourself a sheet and poke two holes in it and go around setting fires (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; William Inge)

Dopey pappy sheet eater (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

We call it a charge sheet. (High Crimes; writing credit: Yuri Zeltser)

Lyrics

I’m only a man in a funny red sheet (Superman; performing artist: Five For Fighting)

Only a man in a funny red sheet (Superman; performing artist: Five For Fighting)

Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day ("Respect Yourself"; performing artist: The Staple Singers)

Tongue Twisters

I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit! (references; author: unknown)

I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I am the best sheet slitter that ever slit a sheet. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Scandal Sheet (1952)

God Has a Rap Sheet (2003)

Under the Sheet (1999)

Scandal Sheet (1985)

Sheet Grishmer Smriti (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sheet

DomainTitle

References

  • Haryana Sheet Glass Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Marufuji Sheet Piling Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Angles, Shapes, Sections and Sheet Piling in Iran (reference)

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Sheet Plywood (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Descriptive Geometry: Work Sheet B (reference)

  • Mopar Broadcast Sheet Decoder Guide 1969-1974 (reference)

  • International Geological Map of Europe and the Mediterranean Regions: Kanin Sheet E1 (reference)

  • Dis-Moi!: Practice Sheet Workbook: Scott, Foresman French Program, Book One (reference)

  • International Geological Map of Europe and the Mediterranean Regions: Edinburg Sheet B3 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Fundamental Manufacturing Processes, Sheet Metal Stamping Dies and Processes (reference)

  • Sheet Metal Vol 1 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sheet

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Photo Album: Sheet

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shown is a white adult woman lying in a hospital bed, covered with a sheet. She is having blood drawn by a doctor with a nurse is in attendance. The patient is looking at the doctor and smiling. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pictured is a gel envelope being placed on a test pad, in a laboratory setting. Visible also are the rubber-gloved hands of scientists, a glass sheet and a white paper covering. They are preparing for the southern blot technique, now used in recombinant DNA technology. These new technologies have revolutionized the way scientists can look at the detail of cellular molecules. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

False positive tests results using the ELISA tests will require secondary testing using this Western blot, immunoblotting procedure. The bound antigens are detected when tagged with antibodies during analysis of the nitrocellulose sheet. Credit: CDC.

"Sheet" by Hassan Sedaghat.

This movie depicts the airborne laser altimeter collecting data.  In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed the Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter. Ten flight lines flown in 1993 in southern Greenland were resurveyed in 1998. Sci. Credit: NASA.

New Animation Depicts Changs in Antarctic Ice Sheet For the first time, scientists at NASA have generated a computer model depicting changes in the Antarctic ice sheet since the peak of the last ice age - nearly 20,000 years ago. The West Antarctic ice. Credit: NASA.

The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below. Credit: NASA.

Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #8 Upper Monterey Canyon as developed by multi-beam sounding systems Surveyed by NOAA Ships DAVIDSON, DISCOVERER, and SURVEYOR This was the smooth sheet for the first published NOAA multi-beam map. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Underway and resting enroute Off of EXPLORER Photo sheet No. 2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Harley Nygren working on a hydrographic survey sheet on Survey Launch #15. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sheet
 

"Answer Sheet" by Wiennat Mongkulmann
Commentary: "Answer sheet with pen."
"Folded sheet" by Ariel C.
Commentary: "Folded sheet."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Sheet

AuthorQuotation

Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sheet

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The entire den was, as it were, illuminated by the reflection of a large sheet iron furnace in the fireplace, which was filled with charcoal

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma put a sheet of newspaper over the tin plate

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sheet

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The three main types are covered in this fact sheet. (references)

A listing of these viruses appears in the SPB fact sheet index. (references)

The information sheet concludes with a list of information resources. (references)

Business

For medium commercial vehicles loading capacity is calculated for sheet covering. (references)

With the frame requirement, the vehicle looses part of its loading capacity because the frame is heavier than the sheet. (references)

In the balance sheet, for example, total assets equal 100 percent, and each individual asset is stated as a percentage of total assets. (references)

Children

Georgia

For example, in August 2000, the police detained an 11-year old boy in Tbilisi who was trying to sell a sheet of aluminum. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

Mohamed Ben Boubaker Mejnoun was sentenced to 5 years in prison, although his name did not appear on the prosecutor's initial charge sheet. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

Before visiting Mozambique, consult the Consular Information Sheet. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

On June 17, Rab's son petitioned the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) to reject the charge sheet, terming it "baseless and concocted," and requested that the case be reinvestigated. (references)

Political Economy

Guatemala

The Consular Information Sheet for Guatemala was updated in January 2001 and can be accessed at http://www.state.gov/. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

During the initial recount, several of the ballot boxes were discovered not to be sealed properly, and the number of ballots in the boxes did not match the official tally sheet within each box. (references)

Trade

Norway

The Norwegian importer is nevertheless responsible for labeling the product and preparing the safety data sheet. (references)

Switzerland

Compared with the previous year, the balance sheet total of the 375 reporting banks declined by 5.3% (1999: +5.4%) to SF 2,125 ($1,257) billion. (references)

Switzerland

The decrease is entirely due to a changed recording method with respect to securities lending and borrowing, which is now treated as off-balance sheet business. (references)

Travel

Poland

Consult the Consular Information Sheet, prepared by the U.S. Department of State, for updates. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Therefore, it is necessary to consult the latest consular information sheet (http://www.state.gov/) and review news headlines prior to traveling to Côte d'Ivoire. (references)

Guyana

Business travelers are urged to consult the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet on Guyana for more detailed information and advice before traveling to Guyana. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Sheet

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Martha Stewart

I cook. I still clean. I iron. But I iron because I want to know what it really takes to iron now. I just got myself one of those big new hotel ironing machines that can iron, you know, five napkins at the same time in one big sheet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sheet

"Sheet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Sheet" is used about 4,212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.67%4,1982,341
Noun (proper)0.26%11106,044
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.05%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)0.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4,212N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Sheet

CountryNameCountryName
India

Haryana Sheet Glass Limited

Japan

Daido Steel Sheet Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Sheet

Expressions using "sheet": a clean sheet A sheet in the wind acrylic sheet aluminum sheet as white as a sheet attendance sheet baking sheet balance sheet balance sheet account balance sheet total balance sheet value balancing sheet bathroom sheet be a sheet or so bed sheet blanket sheet canvas sheet charge sheet chart sheet cheat sheet clean sheet coding sheet condensed balance sheet conduct sheet consolidated balance sheet contour sheet copper sheet cost sheet crib sheet crime sheet Crown sheet curtain of sheet piling cut off sheet piling Damp sheet data sheet deflector sheet dipole sheet transform dope sheet drag sheet dust sheet falsified balance sheet final balance sheet fitted sheet Flowing sheet flue sheet fly sheet fortune sheet free sheet glass sheet go as white as a sheet ground sheet have a clean sheet jump from one sheet of floating ice to another jumping sheet laminated sheet lead sheet lined sheet load and trim sheet log sheet loose sheet map sheet master sheet metal sheet music sheet net commission income as a percentage of balance sheet total news sheet normal balance sheet opening balance sheet order sheet packing sheet pad board sheet pattern sheet post balance sheet event printed sheet proof sheet question sheet quotation sheet quote sheet ramming depth of interlocking sheet piles rap sheet roll up a sheet of paper rolled sheet rolled sheet of dough safety sheet scandal sheet score sheet scratch sheet sheet aluminium sheet anchor sheet asphalt sheet bend sheet brass sheet cable sheet chain sheet copper sheet counting sheet cutter sheet explosive sheet feed sheet flow sheet gauge. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sheet": sheet-anchor, sheet-anchors, sheet-covered, sheet-feed, sheet-feeder, sheet-fuse, sheet-ice, sheet-iron, sheet-lap, sheet-lead, sheet-lightning, sheet-like, sheet-metal, sheet-metal work, sheet-music, sheet-piled, sheet-piling, sheet-proofs, sheet-sham, sheet-sized, sheet-steel, sheet-the, sheet-white, sheet-wrapped.

Ending with "sheet": balance-sheet, charge-sheet, cut-sheet, ice-sheet, job-sheet, news-sheet, score-sheet, winding-sheet, work-sheet, world-sheet.

Containing "sheet": Letter-sheet envelope, work-sheet-auditing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sheet

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sheet music

11,348

balance sheet

427

free sheet music

6,360

msds sheet

422

piano sheet music

2,389

time sheet

319

sheet

1,615

sheet music download

317

sheet music online

1,496

free christian sheet music

309

guitar sheet music

1,460

sheet set

291

free piano sheet music

1,459

silk sheet

270

christian sheet music

1,134

free printable sheet music

238

carlton sheet

984

style sheet

235

bed sheet

897

free sheet music download

234

free guitar sheet music

781

twin extra long sheet

231

material safety data sheet

765

plastic sheet

223

sheet metal

753

sheet metal fabrication

222

satin sheet

734

baseball score sheet

215

fax cover sheet

728

fantasy football cheat sheet

212

coloring sheet

720

free flute sheet music

211

water bed sheet

533

gospel sheet music

210

pink sheet

530

dungeon and dragon character sheet

205

carleton sheet

473

free trumpet sheet music

205

green sheet

432

digital sheet music

199
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sheet

Language Translations for "sheet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

plak (glue, plate, slab, slice, stick), laken, bedlaken. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

fletë (fin, lamina, leaf, page, petal, pinion, vane, wing). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فرخ ورق, ‏ملاية, ‏لوح (blackboard, flag, flourish, gesture, slab, tablet, wave), ‏ورقة (frond, paper), ‏غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, litter, mantle, mask, mat, pall, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, shield, smolder, smoulder, tuck, wrap), ‏غطاء مقاعد السيارة, ‏غطاء الأثاثات, ‏صحيفة (journal, leaf, newspaper, paper), ‏جوخ (cloth, suiting), ‏الفرخ من الورق, ‏الصفيحة (lamina, leaf), ‏شراع (canvas, cloth, course, film, knockabout, rag, sail), ‏دورية (long range patrol, patrol, periodical, review). (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

zuadeggn. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

на листа, изопвам с шкот, пласт (bed, coat, layer, mine, overlay, ply, region, stratum, thickness), плоска тава, печатна кола, повърхност (fringe, side, stretch, superficies, surface, top), покривам (bestride, cap, case, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover up, deck, defray, do over, encase, encrust, enshroud, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pit, pustulate, surmount, vesture, wreathe), пространство (amplitude, area, expansion, extent, ground, reach, space, stretch), брошура (booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet), лист (leaf, page, plate, web), диаграма (chart, curve, diagram, graph, pattern, plan, plot, schema, scheme, tabulation), лея се на потоци, схема (device, pattern, plan, project, schema, scheme, skeleton), вестник (journal, newspaper, organ, paper, print), връзвам с шкот, карта (card, map), корабно платно (sail), шкот, точа на листа, тънък пласт (lamella, seam), чаршаф, режа на листове, лист с пощенски марки. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

fulla (leaf). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

subrekama. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(a slice, disc, flake, piece, slice, thin), (bamboo screen, door screen, leaf, metal foil, tinsel), (article, chapter, piece of writing), 床單 , 板料, 一張 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

tabule (blackboard, board, chalkboard, panel), prostìradlo, plátek (cut, flake, lamina, slice, strip), list (blade, folio, hand, journal, leaf), deska (board, cover, leaf, panel, plate, record, slab, table), arch. (various references)

   

Danish

  

lagen (bed sheet), blad (leaf). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vel (fur, hide, leaf, skin), blad (gazette, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical, plateau, tray), plaat (bank, dial, disc, disk, grammophone disc, image, picture, plate, record, sandbank, slab), laken (cloth, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, wooden cloth). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

littuko, folio (leaf). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

lak, blað (blade, daily paper, gazette, journal, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پهنه (Arena, Palm, Poll, Width), ملافه کردن , ملافه (Bedsheet, Slip), متورق (Laminate), ورقه کردن , ورقه ورقه (Laminate, Layer), ورقه (Brede, Form, Layer, Leaf, Leaflet, Paper, Slab, Streak, Tablet, Ticket, Writ), ورق شده , ورق (Card, Leaf), تخته (Board, Brede, Gob, Ledger, Lumber, Plank, Tablet), سطح (External, Surface), صفحه (Brede, Folio, Leaf, Page, Tablet). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

levy (board, lacquered board, marker, plaque, plate, tablet, wall plaque), arkki (ark). (various references)

   

French

  

feuille (sheeting, time sheet), plaque (shingle), drap de lit (bed sheet), drap. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bled (leaf). (various references)

   

German

  

Blatt (blade, card, folio, hand, instep, leaf, page, paper, vane), Bettuch (bedsheet), schot, schicht (coat, coating, film, layer, level, order, ply, rank, shift, strata, stratum, streak, thickness), scheibe (bit-slice, dial, disc, disk, glass, layer, pane, plate, plug, puck, pulley, rasher, segment, slab, slice, target, wafer, washer, wheel, window), platte (bald head, board, cake-stand, charger, disc, disk, flagstone, flat land, leaf, panel, piece of wood, plaque, plate, platitudinously, platter, record, serving-dish, shelf, slab, table-top, tile, tray), Laken (linen), bogen (arc, arch, bend, bow, bulge, curve, detour, quire, scallop, sheet of paper, slur, span, sweep, swerve, tie, turn), blech (baking tray, brass, car body, crap, gongs, metal plate, plate, rubbish, sheet metal, tin, tin plate, trash), Bettlaken (bedsheet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σεντόνι (bed sheet), κομμάτι (bit, dollop, gobbet, item, piece, snipping), στρώμα (coat, layer, litter, mattress, stratum, stroma). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

fletë (leaf). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יריעה (canvas sheet, curtain, hanging, tent), לוח (board, list, panel, plank, plate, schedule, slab, table, tablet), שכבה (class, coating, film, lay, layer, ply, precipitate, stratum), עתון (journal, newspaper, paper), חבל מפרש, דף (leaf, page, plank), גליון (copy of newspaper, page, tablet), רקוע (beating, flattening, thin layer), סדין (bed sheet). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

papírlap, ív (arc, arc of a circle, arch, bend, bow, ligature, long bend, reiteration, rise of arch, sinuosity, span). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

lauf (leaf). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

seperai (bedclothes, bedspread), lembaran, daman. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lenzuolo (bed sheet), foglio (foil, folio, leaf, piece, sheet of paper), foglia (leaf, ruck), scotta, latta (sheet metal, tin, tin plate), lastra (disc, glass sheet, negative, plaque, plate, slab, table, window pane, x-ray plate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

薄い板 (thin plate), 敷布 (sheeting), シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, seahorse, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しきふ (sheeting), うすいいた (thin plate), シーツ , シート (seat). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Cabinet, Chief, intestinal). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

foglia (leaf). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scoidan, scoid, lhean (broad, extensive, flat of nose, full, full of chin, sweeping, wide), cur brat er (carpet, coat), brat (apron, cloak, clot, coat, coating, cover, covering, curtain, film, layer, overgrowth, pall, pinafore, standing crop, wrap). (various references)

   

Maori

  

hiiti. (various references)

   

Maya

  

taas. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

laken, blad (leaf, leaves). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

laker di kama, laker, blachi (leaf, page). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetshay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

liść (leaf), kartka (leaf), arkusz (leaf). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lençol (bed sheet, web), folha (gazette, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical, sheet metal, tin), chapa (cliché, guy, list, mate, pane, pattern, plate, slab, stencil, template, templet). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

strat (bed, coating, film, layer, ledge, lick, mantle, measures, overlay, ply, ridge, seam, stratum), ziar (Gazette, journal, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, periodical), tinichea (tin, tin plate), tablã (backgammon, blackboard, board, slab, slate, tin, tray), placã (clip, pane, plaque, plate, record, slab, slate, table), jurnal (dailies, diary, Gazette, journal), foaie (lamina, leaf, page, sepal, skirt), fãlţui (groove, rabbet), coalã, cearşaf, beţie (booze, carousal, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse), acoperi cu o pânzã, înfãşura într-o pânzã. (various references)

   

Romany

  

charshàfi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

язык пламени, слой (coating, lay, layer, ply, strata, stratum, thickness, tissue), тонколистовое железо, (abide, agrarian, airmail, Algiers, alphabet, aluminium, amnesty, Arabia, Brabant, bronze, Cairo, castle, Chile, climb, clothe, door, English, everlasting, factory, find, know, love, lyric, madness, maintain, marsh, matter, menu, Mexico City, monkey, nearby, nought, pants, patient, pilgrimage, pregnant, quickly, rapid, rear, sentence, squirrel, take away, the Netherlands, theology, tiger, to, tup, useful, wealth, work, yes), газета (daily paper, gazette, journal, magazine, newspaper, paper, periodical), лист;простыня листовой, лист (leaf), простыня, покрывать листами, покрывать простыней, покрывать (bespread, ceil, coat, coates, cover, deck, defray, mantle, overlay, overspread, top), плоскость (flatness, plane, platitude), пласт (layer, seam, stratum). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

duilleag (leaf, letter). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

lakane. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zatega, tabak, presvući (change), pokriti (bespread, coat, cover, enshroud, hap, mantle, overcast, shroud, top), ploča (panel, planch, plate, record, shingle, slab, tablet), plahta, list (blade, butt, flap, flatfish, leaf, newspaper, plaice, rag, topknot), čaršav, širiti se (flare, get about, permeate, spread). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hoja (bill, blade, blank, foil, form, leaf), sabana (linen, savanna, savannah, veld), lámina (lamella, lamina, plate, slab), sábana, libra (Libra, plate, pound, pound-weight, quid, scales, slab, smacker), escota, chapa (plate, ply, sheet iron, tag, veneer). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

wiwiri (hair, leaf). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

jani (leaf). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ark (ark, sheet of paper), skot, skiva (beano, cut, dial, disc, disk, Gill, jamboree, party, planch, plate, record, round, scale, slab, slice, table, top, wheel), lakan, folie (film, foil, leaf), blad (blade, leaf, page, petal, pile, vane). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

dáhon (leaf, page). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผ้าปูที่นอน, หนังสือพิมพ์ (gazette). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), saç tabakası, yaprak (blade, folio, frond, lamina, laminated, leaf), tabaka (bed, cigarette case, coat, coating, collection, covering, lamina, layer, order, ply, rank, sphere, stage, stratum), levha (pane, panel, plate, signboard, slab, tablet), katman (bed, deposit, layer, sphere, stage, stratum, system), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, clothe, coat, cover, encrust, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, overwhelm, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, shield, smother in, smother with, suffuse, take, thread, upholster, veneer, wreathe), iskotasını çekmek, iskota halatı, gazete (Gazette, journal, news medium, newspaper, paper), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), çarşaf örtmek, çarşaf. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

porsyn (r) (bed sheet). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сторінка (page), чохол (cap, case, cover, covering, jacket, protector, slip over, slipcover, tick, wrapper), аркуш (leaf), простирадло, покривати простирадлом. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

say khướt (pissed), tấm (offal, plaque, slab, tablet), phiến, khăn trải giường lá. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llen (blind, curtain, veil), cynfas (bedsheet, canvas). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

le' (leaf). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sheet

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fune, funem, funes, funibus, funis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sheet

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 10, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai qewrei ton ouranon anewgmenon kai katabainon ep auton skeuoV ti wV oqonhn megalhn tessarsin arcaiV dedemenon kai kaqiemenon epi thV ghV
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