sheet

sheet
[ʃi:t]
noun
1) (a broad piece of cloth eg for a bed: She put clean sheets on all the beds.) rjuha
2) (a large, thin, usually flat, piece: a sheet of paper/glass.) list, plošča
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I [ši:t]
1.
noun
rjuha; ponjava, plahta; plošča (stekla, jekla itd.); ravna, gladka površina (vode, ledu); pljusk, ploha; pola ali list papirja; letak, časopis; printing tiskana pola, krtačni odtisi, korektura; technical tanka plošča; plural nesešiti, posamezni listi
in sheets — ne še vezan, nesešit, še v polah, posameznih listih (o knjigi)
as white as a sheet — bled kot rjuha (kot zid)
between the sheets colloquially v postelji, v posteljo
a blank sheet figuratively nepopisan list (papirja)
metal sheet — pločevina
sheet music — note, ki so tiskane na nevezanih polah
a sheet of note-paper — list pisalnega papirja
a sheet of glass — tanka steklena plošča
sheet of water — vodna površina, ribnik, jezero, velika mlaka
the book is in sheets — knjiga je še v polah, še ni vezana
to go (to turn in) between the sheets — zlesti v posteljo, iti spat
the rain comes down in sheets — dež pada (dežuje) v pljuskih
to stand in a white sheet figuratively pokoriti se, delati pokoro, kesati se, preklicati
to be three sheets in the wind colloquially biti pošteno nadelan, pijan;
2.
transitive verb
pokriti s ponjavo (plahto), z rjuho; zaviti (v mrtvaški prt), zamotati; obložiti z oblogami, s (pločevinastimi) ploščami; dati ploščato obliko
sheeted with ice — pokrit s plastjo ledu
sheeted rain — (v pljuskih) lijoč dež;
3.
adjective
zvaljan v pločevino
sheet zinc — cinkova pločevina; tiskan na nesešite, posamezne pole (liste)
II [ši:t]
1.
noun
nautical
vrv, ki je pritrjena na spodnji zunanji ogel jadra
to be (to have) a sheet in the wind slang biti opit, okajen
to be (to have) three sheets in the wind — biti pošteno nadelan, pijan;
2.
transitive verb
to sheet (home) — pritrditi jadro s (spodnjo) vrvjo

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