Word Finder - sheets

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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.

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Collective noun meaning a large amount, when used of rain, or other precipitation.

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When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.

He shoved the sheets off and looked over his body.

On one or more of the carriages of the trains were placed also insulated metallic sheets, which were in connexion through a telephone and the secondary circuit of an induction coil with the earth or rails.

The sheets were cold and the unfamiliar surroundings unsettling.

The satiny sheets of the bed smelled of the woman he'd made love to for hours last night.

I change the sheets.

Pulling back the covers on her bed, she slipped between the cool sheets and let exhaustion take its course.

Her skin smelled of their lovemaking, her hair and the sheets of him.

She hugged his pillow, thankful that she hadn't changed the sheets yet.

A general map of the German Empire (Uebersichtskarte) on a scale of 200,000, in 196 sheets, is in progress since 1893.

His interest seemed to increase when she clutched the sheets to conceal her state of undress.

Jenn carefully positioned the young woman's body and rolled her in one of the sheets.

It roared on the tin roof and plunged off the eves, where the wind caught it and drove it across the yard in horizontal sheets.

Everett, and issued in 1887 in six sheets, by the Geological Survey of Victoria.

A large number of such sheets are prepared and placed together, one over the other, the end of the strip of the first sheet being connected with the beginning of the strip of the second, and so on to the last sheet, the whole representing the conductor of the cable.

In the same way all the conducting sheets on the other side of the paper are connected together and form the earth-plate of this artificial cable, thus representing the sea.

It is malleable and can be rolled out into sheets.

Lake Balkash, or Denghiz, Lake Ala-kul (which was connected with Balkash in the post-Pliocene period, but now stands some hundred feet higher, and is connected by a chain of smaller lakes with Sissyk-kul), Lake Issyk-kul and the alpine lakes of Son-kul and Chatyr-kul are the principal sheets of water.

Along Hudson Bay shore there is a strip of similar rocks, and a long row of small islands of the same age, with great sheets of trap or diabase forming the tops of the hills.

An orohydrographical map of Russia in four sheets was published in 1878.

The principal types to be found in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe are open wagons (the lading often protected from the weather by tarpaulin sheets), mineral wagons, covered or box wagons for cotton, grain, &c., sheep and cattle trucks, &c. The principal types of American freight cars are box cars, gondola cars, coal cars, stock cars, tank cars and refrigerator cars, with, as in other countries, various special cars for special purposes.

The earliest known edition of the Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs (of which an unique copy is extant) dates back to 1567, though the contents were probably published in broad sheets during John Wedderburn's lifetime.

This is the typical arrangement, which is exhibited in the majority of the Polychaeta and Oligochaeta; in these the successive chambers of the coelom are separated by the intersegmental septa, sheets of muscle fibres extending from the body wall to the gut and thus forming partitions across the body.

Tyndale and Roy escaped with their sheets to Worms, where the 8vo edition was completed in 1526.

After serving for a short time in the artillery, he was appointed in 1797 professor of mathematics at Beauvais, and in 1800 he became professor of physics at the College de France, through the influence of Laplace, from whom he had sought and obtained the favour of reading the proof sheets of the Mecanique celeste.

In the case of topographical maps sheets bounded by meridians and parallels are to be commended.

Masudi, who saw the maps in the Horismos or Rasm el Ard, a description of which was engraved for King Roger of Sicily upon a silver plate, or the rectangular map in 70 sheets which accompanies his geography (Nushat-ul Mushtat) take rank with Ptolemy's work.

He published in 1507 a huge map of the world, in 12 sheets, together with a small globe of a diameter of I 10 mm., the segments for which were printed from wood-blocks.

A similar work is the Arcano del mare of Sir Robert Dudley, duke of Northumberland, the numerous sheets of which are on Mercator's projection (1631).

It covers 697 sheets (or 488 of a " new series " in large sheets), and is published in three editions, viz.

The earlier sheets of this excellent map were lithographed, but these are gradually being superseded by maps engraved on copper.

The map produced on this large scale numbers over 5000 sheets, and is used as a basis for the geological surveys carried on in several of the states of Germany.

The original surveys, carefully revised, have been published since 1870 as a Topographical Atlas of Switzerland - the so-called Siegfried Atlas, in 552 sheets.

To form a roll the several sheets «oXX, F .cara, were joined together with paste (glue being too hard), but not more than twenty sheets in a roll (scapus).

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.

Besides, in case of the entire roll not being filled with the text, the unused and inferior sheets at the end could be better spared, and so might be cut off.

An examination of extant papyri has had the result of proving that sheets of large size, measuring about 12 in., were sometimes used.

Specimens of flowering plants and vascular cryptograms are generally mounted on sheets of stout smooth paper, of uniform quality; the size adopted at Kew is 17 in.

To ensure that all shall lie evenly in the herbarium the plants should be made to occupy as far as possible alternately the right and left sides of their respective sheets.

The blocks are cut into thin sheets by means of a sharp knife, which is caused to move to and fro about two thousand times per minute, the knife being kept moistened with water, and the block fed up to it by mechanical means.

Most of the rubber now manufactured is not combined with sulphur when in the form of sheets, but is mechanically incorporated with about one-tenth of its weight of that substance by means of the mixing rollers - any required pigment or other matter, such as whiting or barium sulphate, being added.

The mixed rubber thus obtained is readily softened by heat, and can be very easily worked into any desired form or rolled into sheets by an apparatus known as the calendering machine.

The calendered sheets are generally cured between folds of wet cloth, the markings of FIG.

The threads used in making elastic webbing are usually cut from spread sheets.

Sheets of mica which have been subjected to earth-movements are frequently cracked and ridged parallel to these directions, and are then valueless for economic purposes.

Sheets of mica very often show coloured rings and bands (Newton's rings), due to the interference of light at the surfaces of internal cleavage cracks.

Cleavage sheets are frequently disfigured and rendered of little value by brown, red or black spots and stains, often with a dendritic arrangement of iron oxides.

Large sheets of muscovite, such as are of commercial value, are found only in the very coarsely crystallized pegmatite veins traversing granite, gneiss or micaschist.

For various purposes a manufactured material known as "micanite" or "micanite cloth" is much used; this consists of small sheets of mica cemented with shellac or other insulating cement on cloth or paper.

Phlogopite is rarely found as colourless transparent sheets and is therefore almost exclusively used for electrical purposes.

In dressing mica the "books" are split along the cleavage into sheets of the required thickness, and the sheets trimmed into rectangles with a sharp knife, shears or guillotine, stained and damaged portions being rejected.