sheet

sheet is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
2. transitive verb. A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
3. transitive verb. A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
4. transitive verb. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet
5. transitive verb. the book itself.
6. transitive verb. A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
7. transitive verb. A broad expanse of water, or the like.
8. transitive verb. A sail.
9. transitive verb. An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
10. transitive verb. A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
11. transitive verb. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
12. transitive verb. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
13. transitive verb. To expand, as a sheet.
14. noun. a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

    Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail

15. noun. bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
16. noun. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

    Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack

17. noun. a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
18. noun. paper used for writing or printing
19. noun. newspaper with half-size pages

    Synonyms: rag, tabloid

20. noun. any broad thin expanse or surface

    "a sheet of ice"

21. 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"

    Synonyms: plane

22. verb. cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping

    "sheet the body"

23. verb. come down as if in sheets

    "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"

Synonyms

canvas, canvass, sail, mainsheet, shroud, tack, rag, tabloid, plane

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sheet:

these

Common word forms

sheets, sheeted, sheeter, sheetful, sheeting, sheetless

Words from these letters

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