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SHEET OF PAPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Paper used for writing or printing
Synonyms:
piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sheet of paper" is a kind of...):
paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sheet of paper"):
slip; slip of paper (a small sheet of paper)
signature (a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book)
folio; leaf (a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book))
tear sheet (a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication)
foolscap (a size of paper used especially in Britain)
style sheet (a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication)
worksheet (a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements)
revenue stamp; stamp (a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid)
Context examples:
It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But where is the rest of that sheet of paper?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes popped a sheet of paper before the doctor’s eyes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have jotted down the more essential ones upon this sheet of paper, together with a few addresses which you will find of service.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Further, letting drop the volume during a lurch of the ship, a sheet of paper fell out.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
While I was waiting for the coach in the hotel at Yarmouth that very afternoon, I procured a sheet of paper and an inkstand, and wrote a note to Peggotty, which ran thus: My dear Peggotty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper, wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He tossed a sheet of paper upon the table, and turned once more to his chemical analysis.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On our return to the room upstairs (where he accounted for his absence by saying that it had been occasioned by circumstances over which he had no control), he took out of it a large sheet of paper, folded small, and quite covered with long sums, carefully worked.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
