sheets

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of sheet. Use this form when you mean more than one sheet.

   She put clean sheets on all the beds before the guests arrived.

   The printer ran out of sheets halfway through the job.

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2. 2
   nouncolloquialfigurativelyplural

   A large amount of rain falling in wide, flat masses.

   Like water poured from a bucket instead of falling drop by drop.

   The rain came down in sheets, soaking everyone before they reached shelter.

   By midnight, sheets of rain were battering the coast.

   Similartorrents, curtains

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3. 3
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of sheet. Use it with a single subject like rain or it.

   Rain sheets down the window whenever a storm rolls in.

   The downpour sheets across the road and slows every car.

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