Sheet vs Strip - What's the difference?
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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.
(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Striptease.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
To remove or take away.
(usually) To take off clothing.
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To perform a striptease.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
* Macaulay
* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
* Chapman
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
As nouns the difference between sheet and strip
is that sheet is a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper while strip is (countable|uncountable) material in long, thin pieces.As verbs the difference between sheet and strip
is that sheet is to cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material while strip is to remove or take away.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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English
Etymology 1
From alteration ofNoun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- (Farrow)
Derived terms
* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mallEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
- opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
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- '2013
- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- The thread is stripped .
- The screw is stripped .
- when first they stripped the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.