different between sheet vs chart

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “papyrus, thin sheet”). See charter, card, carte.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t
• Homophone: chaat (non-rhotic)

Noun

chart (plural charts)

1. A map.
   1. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
   2. A navigator's map.
2. A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
   1. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
   2. A diagram.
   3. A graph.
   4. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

   5. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

3. A written deed; a charter.
4. (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (ch?to)
• ? Korean: ?? (chateu)
• ? Welsh: siart

Translations

Verb

chart (third-person singular simple present charts, present participle charting, simple past and past participle charted)

1. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.

2. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).

3. (transitive) To record systematically.
4. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.

Derived terms

• chartable
• rechart

Translations

Related terms

• card
• cartography
• cartoon
• cartouche
• charter
• Chartist
• Magna Carta

Anagrams

• ratch, trach

Irish

Verb

chart

1. analytic past indicative of cart

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *x?rt?, cognate with Polish chart, Czech chrt, Ukrainian ???? (xort), Serbo-Croatian h?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xart]

Noun

chart m

1. greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)

Declension

Hypernyms

• pjas m (“dog”)

Further reading

• chart in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• chart in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *x?rt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xart/
• Homophone: hart

Noun

chart m anim (diminutive charcik, feminine charcica)

1. greyhound; sighthound

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) charci

Related terms

• (nouns) charci?, charci?tko, charciczka, charciarz

Further reading

• chart in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• chart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

chart m (plural charts)

1. chart