different between shat vs sheet

English

Etymology 1

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit ? sat; spit ? spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Verb

shat

1. simple past tense and past participle of shit
   • 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7):

     Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.

Etymology 2

Arabic ????? (ša??); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. Alternative form of chott
   • 1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482:

     All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation.

Etymology 3

Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. (chiefly Maryland, Delaware) Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
   • 1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559:

     Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who [...] gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats [...] some pine shats for his father.

   • 2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN), page 225:

     A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.

References

Anagrams

• ATHs, HATs, Tash, has't, hast, hats, tash, thas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• shatë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *?akt?, from Proto-Indo-European *s?k-teh?-, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate to Latin secula (“sickle”), sacena (“pick-axe of the pontifix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

shat m (indefinite plural shata)

1. heart-shaped hoe, mattock

References

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Noun

shât f

1. shirt

Kriol

Etymology

From English shot

Noun

shat

1. attempt

English

Etymology

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English s??ete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English s??ata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English s??at (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautij?, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?it/
• Hyphenation: sheet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

sheet (plural sheets)

1. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
2. 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.

   Holonyms: signature, quire

   Meronyms: leaf, folium, page

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

4. A thin, flat layer of solid material.

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

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

7. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
9. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
10. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
11. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
12. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

13. (video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.
    • 1984 February, Sinclair Programs

      If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.

    • 1984, Chris Passey and Matthew Uffindell, Run It Again, in Crash issue 4 [1]

      What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.

Synonyms

• (piece of paper): page
• (line): rope
• (expanse of material): blanket, coat, coating, layer

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (thin layer of solid material): film
• (expanse of material): film

Derived terms

Related terms

• hit the sheets
• three sheets to the wind
• under the sheets
• white as a sheet

Translations

References

• sheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

sheet (third-person singular simple present sheets, present participle sheeting, simple past and past participle sheeted)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
2. (transitive) To form into sheets.
3. (intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

4. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

Translations

References

• sheet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seeth, thees, these