different between sheet vs plait

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

From Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plect?, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette) and to Russian ???????? (spletat?). Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ple?t/, /plæt/
• Homophones: plate, plat
• Rhymes: -æt
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

plait (plural plaits)

1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.

   • the plaits and foldings of the drapery

2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.

Related terms

• pleat

Translations

Further reading

• Plait in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

plait (third-person singular simple present plaits, present participle plaiting, simple past and past participle plaited)

1. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat

2. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid

Translations

Anagrams

• Patil, Pilat, lapti

French

Verb

plait

1. Post-1990 spelling of plaît (third-person singular present indicative of plaire)

Anagrams

• pilât, pliât

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French plait, plet.

Noun

plait (plural plaits)

1. Alternative form of ple

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin placitum (“decree”).

Noun

plait m (oblique plural plaiz or plaitz, nominative singular plaiz or plaitz, nominative plural plait)

1. agreement
2. argument; dispute
3. court (of law)
4. plea; ask; demand

Related terms

• plaidier

Descendants

• ? Middle English: plait
  • English: plea
  • Scots: plaid

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plait)
• plai on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub