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Words related to sheet

Related / Similar Words: sail, canvas, canvass, bed sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud, flat solid, piece of paper, sheet of paper, tabloid, rag, plane

Definition:

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

bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs;

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

a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width;

used for writing or printing;

newspaper with half-size pages;

any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice";

(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";

cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body";

come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon";

Hyponyms: balloon sail, crossjack, mizzen course, fore-and-aft sail, foresail, headsail, mainsail, main-topsail, press of sail, press of canvas, royal, save-all, skysail, square sail, topgallant, topgallant sail, topsail, fitted sheet, contour sheet, futtock shroud, blackboard, chalkboard, blank, board, film, plastic film, laminate, layer, bed, membrane, panel, plate, photographic plate, plate glass, sheet glass, sheet metal, wallboard, slip, slip of paper, signature, leaf, folio, tear sheet, foolscap, style sheet, worksheet, cartesian plane, facet plane, midplane, midline, orbital plane, picture plane, tangent plane

Part Meronyms: sailing vessel, sailing ship, ship

Derivational Morphology: sail, tack, wear round, bed sheet, sheeting

Language Translations:
Chinese: 床单		Danish: ark and lagen
Dutch: blad and laken		Finnish: arkki and lakana
French: drap and feuille		German: Blatt and Laken
Greek: φύλλο		Hungarian: ágynemű
Italian: foglio and lenzuolo		Japanese: 敷布
Korean: 장		Norwegian: laken and papir
Portuguese: folha and lençol		Russian: лист and простыня
Slovene: list and rjuha		Spanish: hoja and sábana
Swedish: lakan

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