to sheet

Definition von to sheet im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A thin, flat layer of solid material; Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall; To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material
Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.; A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface; Of rain, or other precipitation. To pour heavily
We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.; A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper; A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail; 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; The area of ice on which the game of curling is played; A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking; A layer of veneer; {v} to cover or furnish with sheets; {n} linen for a bed, a sail, a piece of paper; {n} a rope fastened to the lower corners of sails; a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel; The area of ice on which a curling game is played; (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"; A thin, flat layer of material; as, a sheet of tinfoil; A line that controls the angle of the sail in its relation to the wind; {i} large rectangular piece of cloth used as a bed covering; thin layer or covering; thin rectangular object, panel, plate; piece of paper; broad expanse of something; resource for manufacturing parts A sheet has rectangle shape and its sizes are given in «Sheet List» Usually X dimension is assumed as one along the long side; The field of play, a sheet of ice 146 feet long and 14 feet, 2 inches wide; A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc; A sheet of something is a thin wide layer of it over the surface of something else. a sheet of ice. a blue-grey sheet of dust; A broad, flat expanse of material on the ground; as, a sheet of mud, a sheet of ice; You can use sheet to refer to a piece of paper which gives information about something. information sheets on each country in the world; come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon; A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; the book itself; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies; To expand, as a sheet; bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width used for writing or printing any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"; A sheet of glass, metal, or wood is a large, flat, thin piece of it. a cracked sheet of glass Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel; A dialog attached to a specific window, ensuring that the user never loses track of which window the dialog belongs to A Print dialog is an example of a sheet See also document-modal dialog; come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"; A line that controls sails and adjusts their angle of attack and their trailing edge; Any material (conducting, insulating, or magnetic) manufactured in sheet form and cut to suit in processing; 1 A visible interface object that specifies the destination for graphical output A sheet has properties including a coordinate system, a region, an enabled flag, an event handler, an output state, and optionally a parent, a transformation, and children 2 A Lisp class, a subclass of bounding-rectangle, that represents a sheet; The total playing area for one game; An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata; Flat array of more than one atomic thickness and composed of one level of linked coordination polyhedra A sheet is thicker than a plane and thinner than a layer Example: tetrahedral sheet, octahedral sheet; A broad expanse of water, or the like; A broad, thin (down to 5/100 of an inch), flat mass of rolled metal in widths from 24' to 80'; sold either in cut-to-length pieces or rolled into large, heavy coils; Lower corner of a square sail; line fastened to lower corner of sail; A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body; A line controlling the position of a sail, attached to a lower corner of a sail, or attached to the boom; A thin cloth covering for a bed; A piece of any material that is very thin in relation to its length and breadth, as a sheet of metal, plastic, textile, paper, etc; A complete unit of stamps as printed Stamps are usually printed in large sheets and are separated into two or more panes before shipment to post offices; No this is not a sail! Sheets are used to control the sails On this boat, we'll have a main sheet and 2 jib sheets one on each side Basically a sheet is pulled in to align the sails more closely to the center of the boat and "released" or "eased" to allow the sails to move away from center; Line or chain at lower corner of sail for regulating its trim; noun - A planar object that is flexible Realmspace beings write on sheets of paper Sheets can be tied in tetraspace The planar analog is a string and the tetral analog is a swock; adjusts a sail's angle to the wind; The specific playing surface upon which a curling game is played; the 146-foot long ice playing area The sheet's design allows play in both directions; A sheet of paper is a rectangular piece of paper. a sheet of newspaper I was able to fit it all on one sheet; any thin stock with two faces or planes that are greater in measure than the thickness; A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom; A single rectangular piece of paper; A sail; To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet; A line used to adjust the trim of a sail; A flat metal pan used for baking; Rope or line attached to the boom or corner of a sail, the lateral movement of which it controls Named after the sail it serves, i e mainsheet, jib and spinnaker sheets; 1) The line connected to the clew of a sail that hauls it out for use, either to the yard below it or (on the course) to a point aft on the deck 2) In the case of a fore-and-aft mainsail, the line used to control the angle of a boom relative to the vessel; In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc; n 1 ---Fill this in--- 2 A Lisp object that represents a sheet [annotate]; any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"; The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets; newspaper with half-size pages; used for writing or printing