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# sheet

«sheet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin flat piece of paper** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sheet, sheets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sheet is a thin flat piece of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#m1)

2) A sheet is a large thin cloth that covers a bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#m2)

3) A sheet is a thin flat piece of metal, glass or ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#m3)

4) A sheet of stamps or stickers is a set printed on one paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#m4)

5) A worksheet is a page of school exercises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: things counted — sheets of paper or stickers, often in packs (a pack of 100 sheets): «a sheet of n» is a group size. School: worksheet, answer sheet. Everyday: change the bed sheets. Science: sheets of ice, a sheet of rain.

### examples

- A pack has 100 sheets of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x1)
- Each pupil uses 3 sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x2)
- A sheet of stamps has 20 stamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x3)
- How many sheets are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x4)
- Please hand in your answer sheet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x5)
- Mum put clean sheets on my bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x6)
- The pond was covered by a thin sheet of ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x7)
- The rain came down in sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x8)
- Then he gently replaced the sheet and returned to the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/#x9)

### note

Countable: a sheet, sheets; «a sheet of paper» (paper itself is uncountable). «A sheet of n» is a group size; sheets per pupil is a rate. Trap: «a sheet of stickers» is not one sticker. Be careful saying it: sheet has a long «ee».

### In the corpora

- [Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/8/)
- [The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/13/)
- [Not all spiders build round webs: some build funnels, sheets or tangles, and some build none at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/12/)
- ["Three sheets to the wind" is an old phrase for very drunk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/24/)
- [He said it was his fault, not his friend's, and did the sheet again alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sheet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.