Talk:sheet

Bedsheet
1. is the same as bedsheet. Lennart.larsen 11:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Does someone know how to split up the translations? Lennart.larsen 11:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Lennart: I have cleaned up the translations. Now do you know how to remove the request for cleanup?

Perhaps the code {rfc} should be erased from the entry page.--Wikiand 23:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Did a little more, removed tag. --Connel MacKenzie 23:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

sheet
Sense: Nautical rope.
 * I think this is a bogus entry from another secondary source, to find copyvios? Anyway, the sail meaning is still missing, itself.
 * From Webster's 1913...now marked obsolete. --Connel MacKenzie 23:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's obsolete -- it was still used in England when I learned to sail a dinghy in the 1980s. I'll add it to my list to check, but meanwhile it might as well stay obsolete (OED2+ has no post-19th cent cites). --Eng in ear 21:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sense: Money.
 * I can't see how (if used/attested) this is different from any thin item.

--Connel MacKenzie 23:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Nor me. --Eng in ear 21:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * RFVfailed in that sense. &mdash; Beobach972 02:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Sheet = sail? Really?
The only time I've ever heard this usage was in the old TV show [The Ghost and Mrs.Muir]. In the first episode (I think) Mrs. Muir talks about how nice it is to see the ships with their nice white sheets. To this the ghost roughly complains that those are "sails; the sheets are used to control the sails."

Incorrect usage is not a reason for assuming it is part of a definition. Is there a reasonable number of references to this sort of usage that would justify it being a use of the word and not just a mistake. Otherwise: 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 99.245.248.91 23:06, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Persian شیت
Is it cognate with Persian شیت? 173.89.236.187 20:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Missing video game sense
There's an old (1980s-era) sense of this word, meaning something like a level or wave, e.g. managing to get to the third sheet in a Space Invaders game. Should be citable with some effort. Equinox ◑ 00:18, 14 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Still can't cite this. Frustrating! Equinox ◑ 14:10, 4 November 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ Added with two citations. Equinox ◑ 23:55, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

sheets: plural noun
sheets (plural noun) spaces at bow and stern Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:44, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Also something used in cigarette manufacture?
Wikipedia's article says: Most cigarettes contain a "reconstituted tobacco" product known as "sheet", which consists of "recycled [tobacco] stems, stalks, scraps, collected dust, and floor sweepings", to which are added glue, chemicals and fillers; the product is then sprayed with nicotine that was extracted from the tobacco scraps... Equinox ◑ 13:22, 26 May 2020 (UTC)