Sheet

(noun.) bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs.

(noun.) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.

(noun.) a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width.

(noun.) paper used for writing or printing.

(noun.) any broad thin expanse or surface; 'a sheet of ice'.

(verb.) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; 'sheet the body'.

(verb.) come down as if in sheets; 'The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon'.

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• The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Meanwhile the water strains through the wire cloth, leaving a thin layer of moist interlaced fibre spread in a white sheet over the surface of the belt. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The note was written on a rather untidy half-sheet, without date or address, but her hand was firm and free. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The wet sheets of rubber are cut in square pieces, placed on perforated tin pans and loaded into the dryer, which will hold about eight hundred pounds of rubber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I will _not_ prison it in the linen press to find shrouds among the sheets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To take off copies lay dry sheets of paper on the reversed impression, press gently, and remove quickly. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The sheeted sprays drenched the decks like rain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Catherine was lying in the narrow bed wearing a plain, square-cut night-gown that looked as though it were made of rough sheeting. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

校对:塔玛拉