sheet
part of speech
noun (sheet, sheets)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sheet is a thin flat piece of paper. tree →
2) A sheet is a large thin cloth that covers a bed. tree →
3) A sheet is a thin flat piece of metal, glass or ice. tree →
4) A sheet of stamps or stickers is a set printed on one paper. tree →
5) A worksheet is a page of school exercises. tree →
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 →
- Each pupil uses 3 sheets. tree →
- A sheet of stamps has 20 stamps. tree →
- How many sheets are left? tree →
- Please hand in your answer sheet. tree →
- Mum put clean sheets on my bed. tree →
- The pond was covered by a thin sheet of ice. tree →
- The rain came down in sheets. tree →
- Then he gently replaced the sheet and returned to the palace. tree →
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.
- The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
- Not all spiders build round webs: some build funnels, sheets or tangles, and some build none at all.
- "Three sheets to the wind" is an old phrase for very drunk.
- He said it was his fault, not his friend's, and did the sheet again alone.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sheet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.