Mere vs Sheet - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) the sea
(dialectal, or, literary) a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 194:
boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
(obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
(obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
(label) Pure, unalloyed .
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:
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(label) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
* , II.3.7:
Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
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, title= A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
* Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
* Bible, Acts x. 10, 11
* Shakespeare
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.
* A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.
* Paper is designated “20 pound” if a stack (ream) of 500 sheets 22 inches by 17 inches weighs 20 pounds.
A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
* Place the rolls on the cookie sheet , edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
A thin, flat layer of solid material.
* The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.
* A sheet''' of that new silicon stuff is as good as a '''sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.
A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
* Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet''', then more rain froze into a '''sheet of ice on top of the mud!
(nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
* To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.
(nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
(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.
To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
* Shakespeare
Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
(nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.
As nouns the difference between mere and sheet
is that mere is fear, awe while sheet is a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.As a verb sheet is
to cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.mere
English
(wikipedia mere)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mere, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Drayton)
- (Tennyson)
- Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.
Derived terms
* mereswine * mermaid * merman * merfolkEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- The Troian Brute'' did first that Citie found, / And ''Hygate'' made the meare thereof by West, / And ''Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
Verb
(mer)Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Etymology 4
From (etyl) meer, from (etyl) mier, from (etyl) merus. Perhaps influenced by (etyl) , or conflated with Etymology 3.Adjective
(er)- So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion.
- Meere .
- If every man might have what he wouldwe should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
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Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Derived terms
* merelyEtymology 5
From (etyl) .Statistics
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English
(wikipedia sheet)Noun
(en noun)- He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners.
- If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets .
- (Dryden)
- fore sheets'''; stern '''sheets
Synonyms
* (piece of paper) page * (line) rope * (expanse of material) layer, coat, coating, blanketDerived terms
* balance sheet * bedsheet * bleed-sheet * broadsheet * cap sheet * clean sheet * contour sheet * dope sheet * fitted sheet * scandal sheet * scratch sheet * sheet music * stylesheet * tearsheet * three sheets to the wind * tip sheet * top sheet * under the sheets * white as a sheet * worksheet * yellow sheetVerb
(en verb)- Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.
- Yea, like a stag, when snow the pasture sheets , / The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
- We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.