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sheet
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)
- A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
- 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
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
- A thin, flat layer of solid material.
- A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
- (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
- (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
- (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
- (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
- (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.
- 1984 February, Sinclair Programs
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)
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
- (transitive) To form into sheets.
- (intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
- (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
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wafer
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German w?fel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?we?f?/
- Rhymes: -e?f?(?)
Noun
wafer (plural wafers)
- A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
- (Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
- A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
- The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
- (electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Synonyms
- (religion): host
Derived terms
- waferless
- waferlike
- wafery
Translations
Verb
wafer (third-person singular simple present wafers, present participle wafering, simple past and past participle wafered)
- (transitive) To seal or fasten with a wafer.
- 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March:
- [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.
- 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, p. 81:
- [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].
- 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March:
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English wafer.
Noun
wafer m (plural wafers)
- wafer (electronic component)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English wafer.
Noun
wafer m (invariable)
- wafer (biscuit and electronic component)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English wafer.
Noun
wafer m (plural wafers)
- wafer (type of biscuit)
- (electronics) wafer (disk on which an electronic circuit is produced)
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