air letter |
a sheet of very lightweight paper that may be folded into an envelope for mailing abroad; aerogramme. [1/2 definitions] |
altostratus |
a thick dense cloud that forms a uniform gray sheet that often produces precipitation, found at medium altitudes. |
bedsheet |
a sheet to be used on a bed. |
brittle |
a sheet candy made of caramelized sugar and nuts. [1/4 definitions] |
broadside |
a sheet of paper printed on one side only for distribution or posting, or a ballad or satire printed on such sheets. [1/9 definitions] |
business envelope |
an envelope that will enclose a sheet of paper eight and a half inches wide that has been folded twice lengthwise. |
carbon paper |
very thin paper coated on one side with carbon or a dark waxy pigment, that is placed between two sheets of paper and produces a copy on the lower sheet of text that is written or typed on the upper. |
chart |
a sheet that gives information in the form of a table or graph. |
clipsheet |
a sheet of paper containing news articles, features, or releases, printed on one side for easy clipping and reprinting. |
cold pack |
a treatment involving the application of a cold sheet or ice pack to a patient's body, to reduce swelling or relieve pain. [1/2 definitions] |
drop cookie |
a cookie made by dropping dough from a spoon onto the baking sheet, rather than by shaping or rolling it. |
duodecimo |
the page size of a book that is five by seven and a half inches or one twelfth of a printer's sheet. [1/3 definitions] |
duvet |
a bed covering filled with feathers or other soft material and generally having a removable and washable cover so that it can be used as both top sheet and quilt. |
expanded metal |
sheet metal that has been stamped or cut into a latticelike form and stretched, used to reinforce concrete. |
facial tissue |
a soft sheet of tissue paper used esp. as a handkerchief; kleenex. |
fiche |
a sheet of microfilm, resembling an index card in size, that can contain many pages of printed text in reduced size; microfiche. |
flashing |
sheet metal or other material used to reinforce and weatherproof building joints. |
flier |
a printed sheet with information about people or events that is handed out to the public. [1/2 definitions] |
floe |
a large sheet of floating ice. |
flyleaf |
the blank sheet or leaf in the front or back of a book. |
foil2 |
a very thin sheet of a metal that you can bend or fold. |