sheets

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: shēts
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃiːts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃits/

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• Hyphenation: sheets
• Rhymes: -iːts

Noun

sheets

1. plural of sheet

Derived terms

• balance the sheets
• between the sheets
• four sheets in the wind, four sheets to the wind
• hit the sheets
• split the sheets
• sternsheets, stern sheets
• three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, three sheets
• under the sheets

Noun

sheets pl (plural only)

1. (informal, figurative) (Of rain or other precipitation, fire, etc.) Great amounts, coming or moving in intense waves.

   When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.

   Windblown sheets of flame raced across the prairie.

   • 1855, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 514:

     […] heavy sheets of rain with heavy gusts at N.E.;  […]

   • 2020 October 26, Zoey Blair, The Cadence of Secrets, Rockville Publishing, →ISBN:

     Heavy sheets of rain dwindled to a slow, quiet drizzle as she pulled the car toward the front door of her store. By the time she stepped out of the car, the drizzle had turned into a scattering of flurries that wafted lazily in the air […]

See also

• in sheets

Verb

sheets

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sheet

Anagrams

• Teshes, teshes, theses