/ʃiːt/
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Translation
A large thin piece of cloth for a bed, or a flat thin piece of paper, glass, or metal.
Word origin
From Old English sciete, a piece of cloth.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- sciete
Grammar
Gender
Pluralsheets
Examples
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Bed sheets are the thin cloth you lie on and under.
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"A sheet of paper" is one flat piece.
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This saying means very heavy rain, falling like a wall of water.
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