SHEET OF PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheet of paper mean? 

• SHEET OF PAPER (noun)
  The noun SHEET OF PAPER has 1 sense:

1. paper used for writing or printing

  Familiarity information: SHEET OF PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEET OF PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paper used for writing or printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper

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 was sometimes his way—the master’s, that is—to write his orders on a sheet of paper and throw it on the stair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mycroft Holmes took out a sheet of paper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From it he drew a folded sheet of paper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it ought to be done, and if you will give me a sheet of paper, it shall be done directly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with dates and names.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For two hours I watched him as he covered sheet after sheet of paper with figures and letters, so completely absorbed in his task that he had evidently forgotten my presence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fifty pound Bank note, in a sheet of paper, directed to me, and put underneath the door in the night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You have done excellent work,” said Holmes, scribbling a few words upon a half-sheet of paper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was all practical, so one of the children went off with a penny to buy an envelope and a sheet of paper, and to keep the change.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

By hand pressures, after that, he answered our questions, and when he wished to speak he scrawled his thoughts with his left hand, quite legibly, on a sheet of paper.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)