Sheet vs Member - What's the difference?
sheet | member |
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.
One who officially belongs to a group.
A part of a whole.
* 1979 , Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia",
Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 4
The penis.
(logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
(set theory) An element of a set.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
(AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
(math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
(obsolete) To remember.
(obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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As nouns the difference between sheet and member
is that sheet is a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper while member is member (person).As a verb sheet
is to cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.sheet
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.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) membre, from (etyl) membre, from (etyl) . Coexists with native (etyl) lim, ).Alternative forms
* membre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper , Volume 1110
- The member' intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone ' member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
- We have many members' in one body, and all ' members have not the same office.