Sheet

Sheet may refer to:

  • A flat piece of cloth, paper, or other material
    • Bed sheet, a piece of cloth used to cover a mattress
    • A piece of paper
      • Balance sheet, a financial summary of assets and liabilities
      • Sheet music, a form of musical notation
      • A slang term for one pound sterling or similar currency in the United Kingdom
    • Sheet metal
    • The playing surface in the sport of curling
    • An ice sheet, a mass of glacier ice
    • A Cheat-sheet, a concise set of notes used for quick reference
    • A kind of complex plane in mathematics
    • A level or section of an early video game (particularly single screen arcade games)
    • A kind of dialog box in graphical user interfaces
  • Sheet (sailing), a rope, cable or chain used to control a sail
  • Placenames
    • Sheet, Hampshire
  • A song on the album Pig Lib by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Famous quotes containing the word sheet:

    “You take the lake. I look and look at it.
    I see it’s a fair, pretty sheet of water.
    I stand and make myself repeat out loud
    The advantages it has....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
    I drew the white sheet over the islands
    And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle—the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)