sheet
- noun
- /ʃiːt/
- Literature
- The last real newspaperman I got on this sheet.
Examples
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Check your manual or specification sheet to learn how many each model can do.
Academic text (2009) -
In the cafe, I picked up a local news sheet to catch up on recent events.
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"Well," she said, crumpling another sheet of newspaper, "Rome wasn't built in a day."
Fiction book (1998) -
Its title was also slightly different, "Gypsy Moth Fact Sheet," rather than "The Gypsy Moth in Michigan."
Academic text (1994) -
About 1800, broadside presses began publishing thousands of carol sheets for popular consumption in country districts.
Academic text (1990) -
The newspaper published a special sheet for the upcoming election, featuring candidates and their platforms.
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Each sheet provided essential information about new policies affecting the community.
Synonyms
A newspaper that contains news and articles
A printed paper that has news, stories, and ads
A small newspaper or magazine that tells gossip and exciting stories about people
A cheap newspaper with flashy, low-quality stories
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A document that shows what a company owns, what it owes, and its value on a date
- Specialized
A file that tells a web page how to look, for example fonts and colors
- Literature
A short paper that gives advice and guesses about business, stocks, or horse racing
- Specialized
A row of metal boards pushed into the ground to hold back soil or water
- Jargon
A knot used to join one rope to another, even when they are different thicknesses
- Specialized
The job of shaping and joining thin metal sheets to make building parts like vents
- Specialized
Looking at a company's money, debts, and owners' share to judge its financial health
- Specialized
A diagram that shows the order of steps in a process, like a computer program or accounting system
- Specialized
A large sheet of paper printed with many pages before cutting or folding
- Specialized
A long flat piece of metal, wood, or concrete driven into the ground to hold back soil and water
- Specialized
A thin flat metal made by rolling or hammering used for roofs and building parts
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Surface Forms
Etymology
A sheet for a newspaper comes from the idea of a single 'sheet' of paper used for printing, so a small paper was often called a sheet.