Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sheet
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used esp. in pairs as inner bedclothes. 2 a a broad usu. thin flat piece of material (e.g. paper or metal). b (attrib.) made in sheets (sheet iron). 3 a wide continuous surface or expanse of water, ice, flame, falling rain, etc. 4 a set of unseparated postage stamps. 5 derog. a newspaper, esp. a disreputable one. 6 a complete piece of paper of the size in which it was made, for printing and folding as part of a book. --v. 1 tr. provide or cover with sheets. 2 tr. form into sheets. 3 intr. (of rain etc.) fall in sheets. Phrases and idioms sheet lightning a lightning flash with its brightness diffused by reflection. sheet metal metal formed into thin sheets by rolling, hammering, etc. sheet music music published in cut or folded sheets, not bound. Etymology: OE scete, sciete f. Gmc 2. n. 1 a rope or chain attached to the lower corner of a sail for securing or controlling it. 2 (in pl.) the space at the bow or stern of an open boat. Phrases and idioms flowing sheets sheets eased for free movement in the wind. sheet anchor 1 a second anchor for use in emergencies. 2 a person or thing depended on in the last resort. sheet bend a method of temporarily fastening one rope through the loop of another. Etymology: ME f. OE sceata, ON skaut (as SHEET(1))
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scīete; akin to Old English scēat edge, Old High German scōz flap, skirt Date: before 12th century 1. a broad piece of cloth, sail 1a(1), 2. a. a usually rectangular piece of paper, a rectangular piece of heavy paper with a plant specimen mounted on it , a printed signature for a book especially before it has been folded, cut, or bound, a newspaper, periodical, or occasional publication , the unseparated postage stamps printed by one impression of a plate on a single piece of paper, a broad stretch or surface of something , a suspended or moving expanse (as of fire or rain), 5. a portion of something that is thin in comparison to its length and breadth, a flat baking pan of tinned metal , a surface or part of a surface in which it is possible to pass from any one point of it to any other without leaving the surface , ~like adjective II. adjective Date: 1582 rolled or spread out in a ~, of, relating to, or concerned with the making of ~ metal, III. verb Date: 1606 transitive verb to cover with a ~ , to furnish with ~s, to form into ~s, intransitive verb to fall, spread, or flow in a ~ , ~er noun IV. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēata lower corner of a sail; akin to Old English scȳte ~ Date: 13th century a rope or chain that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind, the spaces at either end of an open boat not occupied by thwarts ; fore~s and stern ~s together, V. transitive verb Date: 1925 to move or set (a sail) by manipulation of a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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