silver sheet
- noun
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plano de plata
- The artist carefully shaped the silver sheet into a beautiful pendant for her necklace.
Examples
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In the workshop, she cut the silver sheet into smaller pieces for her latest metalworking project.
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He used a silver sheet to create intricate designs on the surface of the jewelry box.
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It had transformed into a rippled silver sheet, like corrugated metal of those houses by the train tracks.
Fiction book (2001)
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a thin, flat piece of silver' is directly and compositionally derived from 'silver' (the metal) + 'sheet' (a thin, flat layer). This noun–noun compounding pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Silver sheet comes from people who work with metal. They hammered silver until it was very thin and flat, like a sheet, so the name means 'a thin, flat piece of silver used for making things'.