Sheet Clean Paper I ʃiːt Covered Changed Put

• have you changed the sheets (= put clean sheets on the bed)?
• he slid between the sheets and closed his eyes.
• a clean/blank sheet of paper (= with no writing on it)
• start each answer on a fresh sheet.

sheet

1. a large piece of thin cloth used on a bed to lie on or lie under
• see also dust sheet
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dust-sheet
• Have you changed the sheets (= put clean sheets on the bed)?
• He slid between the sheets and closed his eyes.
2. a piece of paper for writing or printing on, etc. usually in a standard size
• see also freesheet
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/freesheet
• a clean/blank sheet of paper (= with no writing on it)
• Start each answer on a fresh sheet.
• Pick up one of our free information sheets at reception.
• a sheet of A4
3. a flat thin piece of any material, normally square or rectangular
• a sheet of glass/steel
• sheet metal (= metal that has been made into thin sheets)
• Place the dough on a baking sheet (= for cooking something in an oven).
4. a wide flat area of something, covering the surface of something else
• The road was covered with a sheet of ice.
5. a large moving mass of fire or water
• a sheet of flame
• The rain was coming down in sheets (= very heavily).
6. a rope or chain fastened to the lower corner of a sail to hold it and to control the angle of the sail
7. a record of your work or behaviour that does not show any mistakes or bad things that you have done
• No government operates with a completely clean sheet.
• They kept a clean sheet in the match (= no goals were scored against them).

Extra Examples

• A wall of sheet rock was placed down the middle.
• Could you put some fresh sheets on the bed?
• He grabbed a blank sheet of paper and began to write.
• He threw back the sheets and rolled out of bed.
• I need cheat sheets to help me cram for my exam.
• I pulled the sheet up over my nose.
• I sent for the free fact sheet on the disease.
• I simply wrapped the sheet around her.
• I slipped under the sheets and was asleep in an instant.
• I threw a sheet over the sofa.
• She changed the sheets on all the beds.
• She had slept in her bed—the sheets were crumpled.
• She lay between the cool sheets.
• She tore a sheet out of her notebook.
• Sheets of flame shot into the air.
• Take a clean sheet of paper and start again.
• The advertisement was a single printed sheet.
• The furniture was covered in dust sheets.
• The police had covered the body with a sheet.
• The sky was lit up by great flashes of sheet lightning.
• a fax cover sheet
• a pile of clean sheets
• a sheet of blotting paper
• a sheet of glass/plastic/metal
• sheet metal workers
• sheets hung on a line
• the Antarctic ice sheet
• Decision makers do not have a blank sheet upon which they can inscribe their own policy proposals.
• Most of the surface is covered by a sheet of clay.
• Sheets of lava poured out.
• The front wheels slid sideways on a sheet of ice.

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 5 Old English scēte, scīete, of Germanic origin; related to the verb shoot in its primary sense ‘to project’.