Word Finder - sheet

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A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

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Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.

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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.

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A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.

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A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

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Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.

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A thin, flat layer of solid material.

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A sheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as a sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.

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A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

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Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet, then more rain froze into a sheet of ice on top of the mud!

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A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

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To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.

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A sail.

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The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.

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A layer of veneer.

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Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.

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An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

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The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

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fore sheets; stern sheets

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A distinct level or stage within a game.

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To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.

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Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.

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To form into sheets.

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Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

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We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.

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To trim a sail using a sheet.

He tore a sheet of paper from Fred's pad and scribbled the number.

In fact, the sheet music was unnecessary.

She grabbed a pen and a notepad, hesitating a second before pulling the top sheet off the notepad.

Maybe 'metalman' is some sheet metal worker or some heavy metal rocker.

They stood in front of an airy, light tent resembling a silk sheet suspended in midair over a table.

A'Ran went to his quarters, the thin sheet of what felt like a leaf in his hand.

A little vinegar is poured into each pot; they are then covered with plates of sheet lead, buried in horse-dung or spent tanner's bark, and left to themselves for a considerable time.

Ewing's hysteresis-tester, 2 which is specially intended for testing the sheet iron used in transformers.

Then he took from his pocket a sheet of paper on which some verses were written.

Martha's diary - planning sheet Write Martha's diary with an emphasis on using connectives.

Within the hour, guards returned with a sheet of heavy metal to brace the disabled door.

One genus of Thomisidae (Phognarachne), which inhabits the Oriental region, adopts the clever device of spinning on the surface of a leaf a sheet of web resembling the fluid portions of a splash of bird's dung, the more solid central portions being represented by the spider itself, which waits in the middle of the patch to seize the butterflies or other insects that habitually feed on birds' excrement and are attracted to the patch mistaking it for their natural food.

The national dress is the " tobe," a simple cotton sheet of two breadths sewn together, about 15 ft.

The sheet was finally hammered and dried in the sun.

The best sheet formed the first or outside sheet of the roll, and the others were joined on in order of quality, so that the worst sheets were in the centre of the roll.

A thin sheet of magnetic matter magnetized normally to its surface in such a manner that the magnetization at any place is inversely proportional to the thickness h of the sheet at that place is called a magnetic shell; the constant product hI is the strength of the shell and is generally denoted by 4, or 4.

Thin sheet iron o 367 mm.

If we hold a common reading lens (a magnifying lens) in front of a lamp or some other bright object and at some distance from it, and if we hold a sheet of paper vertically at a suitable distance behind the lens, we see depicted on the paper an image of the lamp. This image is inverted and perverted.

The glacier or ice sheet overran all Maine, irregularly scouring out the bed rock to produce rock basins, damming up many river valleys with glacial deposits and completely disarranging the drainage lines.

But Boanas will have been disappointed not to keep a clean sheet when the visitors netted a consolation with four minutes remaining.

But the material was also subject to other defects, such as moisture lurking between the layers, which might be detected by strokes of the mallet; spots or stains; and spongy strips (taeniae), in which the ink would run and spoil the sheet.

So indispensable did it The charta Claudia was made from a composition of the first and second qualities, the Augusta and the Livia, a layer of the former being backed with one of the latter; and the sheet was increased to nearly a foot in width.

The width, however, proved inconvenient, and the broad sheet was liable to injury by tearing.

The first sheet of a roll was named the last, Under the Romans, the former bore the name of the comes largitionum, who had control of the manufacture, with the date and name of place.

Where, as in private herbaria, the specimens are not liable to be handled with great frequency, a stitch here and there round the stem, tied at the back of the sheet, or slips of paper passed over the stem through two slits in the sheet and attached with gum to its back, or simply strips of gummed paper laid across the stem, may be resorted to.

After mounting are written - usually in the right-hand corner of the sheet, or on a label there affixed - the designation of each species, the date and place of gathering, and the name of the collector.

Other particulars as to habit, local abundance, soil and claim to be indigenous may be written on the back of the sheet or on a slip of writing paper attached to its edge.

Roots and fruits too bulky to be placed on the sheet of the herbarium may be conveniently arranged in glass-covered boxes contained in drawers.

A flat sheet of lead or some other suitable weight should be laid upon the top of the pile of specimens, so as to keep up a continuous pressure.

When freed from excess of water it is laid on a sheet of thick white blotting-paper, and a piece of smooth washed calico is placed upon it (unwashed calico, on account of its "facing," adheres to the sea-weed).

Another sheet of blottingpaper is then laid over it; and, a number of similar specimens being formed into a pile, the whole is submitted to pressure, the paper being changed every hour or two at first.

There is considerable difficulty in removing mounted specimens of algae from paper, and therefore a small portion preserved on mica should accompany each specimen, enclosed for safety in a small envelope fastened at one corner of the sheet of paper.

Lichens are generally mounted on sheets of paper of the ordinary size, several specimens from different localities being laid upon one sheet, each specimen having been first placed on a small square of paper which is gummed on the sheet, and which has the locality, date, name of collector, &c., written upon it.

This lake drained southward into the Gulf of Mexico via the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, until the ice sheet which had prevented its natural drainage to the north had melted sufficiently to allow it to be drained off into Hudson Bay by way of the Nelson River.

A narrow and shallow channel leads from the western side of the lake into another sheet of water, the Lake of Ishkul, so called from Jebel Ishkul, a hill on its southern bank 1740 ft.

Solid impurities speedily become crushed, and are carried away by the water, while the rubber takes the form of an irregular sheet perforated by numerous holes.

Most articles made of cut sheet rubber would, however, be of very limited utility were they not hardened or vulcanized by the action of sulphur or some compound of that element.

If an article made of cut sheet be immersed for a few minutes in a bath of melted sulphur, maintained at a temperature of 120 0 C., the rubber absorbs about one-tenth of its weight of that element, and, although somewhat yellowish in colour from the presence of free sulphur, it is still unvulcanized, and unaltered as regards general properties.

Another method of vulcanizing articles made from cut sheet rubber consists in exposing them to the action of chloride of sulphur.

Vulcanization is then effected by steam heat, and, the preparation on the cloth being softened by water, the sheet of rubber is readily removed.

The required thickness of the spread sheet is very often secured by the rubber-faced surfaces of two cloths being united before curing.

A similar six-rayed system of cracks, bisecting the angles between the rays of the previous set, is produced when a blunt punch is gradually pressed against a sheet of mica; this is known as the "pressure figure."

The actual magnetizing force H is of course less than that due to the coil; the corrections required are effected automatically by the use of a set of demagnetization lines drawn on a sheet of celluloid which is supplied with the instrument.

The celluloid sheet is laid upon the squared paper, and in plotting a curve horizontal distances are reckoned from the proper demagnetization line instead of from the vertical axis.

The table-topped hills of Almeyrin (or Almeirim) and Erere, which lie near the lower Amazon and rise to heights of 800 and 900 ft., are generally considered the southernmost margin of this plateau, though Agassiz and others describe them as remains of a great sandstone sheet which once covered the entire Amazon valley.

A thick sandstone sheet once covered the greater part if not all of it, remains of which are found on the elevated chapadas of the interior and on isolated elevations extending across the republic toward its western frontier.

Among these are flour mills, factories for the cutting of wire nails and making hollow ware from sheet iron, and factories for the manufacture of umbrellas, boots and shoes, &c.

Here the Umgeni leaps in a single sheet of water down a precipice over 350 ft.

They are formed by parallel rays of light emanating from two sources, as, for example, the sun and its image in a sheet of water, which is situated between the observer and the sun.

The most important form of the operation is making tinned from ordinary sheet iron (making what is called "sheet tin").