sheet
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(verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body" |
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Related Words: cover |
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(verb) come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" |
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Related Words: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
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(noun) a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs for bed linens |
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Synonyms: bed sheet |
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Related Words: bed linen, contour sheet, fitted sheet |
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(noun) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind |
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Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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Related Words: futtock shroud, line |
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(noun) a flat man-made object that is thin relative to its length and width |
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Synonyms: flat solid |
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Related Words: artefact, artifact, blackboard, blank, board, chalkboard, film, laminate, layer, membrane, panel, photographic plate, plastic film, plate, plate glass, sheet metal, sheet of glass, wallboard |
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(noun) used for writing or printing |
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Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper |
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Related Words: folio, foolscap, leaf, paper, signature, slip, slip of paper, tear sheet, worksheet |
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(noun) any broad thin expanse or surface: "a sheet of ice" |
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Related Words: expanse, extent |
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(noun) (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" |
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Synonyms: plane |
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Related Words: facet plane, form, midline, midplane, orbital plane, picture plane, shape, tangent plane |
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(noun) newspaper with half-size pages |
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Synonyms: rag, tabloid |
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Related Words: newspaper, paper |
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(noun) a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel |
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Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail |
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Related Words: balloon sail, crossjack, fore-and-aft sail, fore-topsail, foresail, headsail, main-topsail, mainsail, mizzen course, piece of cloth, press of canvas, press of sail, royal, save-all, skysail, square sail, topgallant, topgallant sail, topsail |
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