Usually means: Thin, flat material for covering.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word sheet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sheet, sheet, sheet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheet, sheet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sheet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sheet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sheet, -sheet, sheet: Wordnik
  7. sheet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sheet, sheet: Wiktionary
  9. sheet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sheet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sheet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sheet: Dictionary.com
  13. sheet (1), sheet (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sheet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sheet (sailing), Sheet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sheet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sheet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sheet: Rhymezone
  19. sheet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sheet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sheet: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. sheet: Free Dictionary
  23. sheet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sheet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sheet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheet: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sheet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheet: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sheet: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheet, sheet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sheet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. the sheet: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. sheet: Master Mariner
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sheeted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
noun:  A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.
noun:  A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
noun:  A thin, flat layer of solid material.
noun:  A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
noun:  (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
noun:  (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
noun:  (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
noun:  (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
noun:  (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
noun:  (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
noun:  (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
noun:  (video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
verb:  (transitive) To form into sheets.
verb:  (intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
verb:  (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.
noun:  A village in Hampshire, England.

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