Noun

(en noun)

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

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.

* Shakespeare

If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets .

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.

(Dryden)

(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.

fore sheets'''; stern '''sheets

Noun

(en noun)

That which is thin and broad.

A thin, broad piece cut off.

a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread

amount

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A piece of pizza.

* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)

For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.

(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

A broad, thin piece of plaster.

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

A salver, platter, or tray.

A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.

(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw

(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.

(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)