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Definition of Sheetlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a sheet.
Definition of Sheetlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a sheet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sheetlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheetlike
Literary usage of Sheetlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"This sheetlike filling ranges from 1 to 6 or 8 inches in thickness and, as the
surface of the rock incline is now exposed, this material lies in patches as ..."
2. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1908)
"The following conditions are possible evidence of intrusion: The occurrence of
irregular-shaped horses and distorted sheetlike horses without parallelism to ..."
3. All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"It is a generation since I looked upon thee whom I slew—slew with mine own hand,"
and with trembling fingers she seized the corner of the sheetlike wrapping ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"She loosens the wrappings of her legs and then throws around her the sheetlike
dress in which she means to pray and bathe. From under it she loosens and ..."
5. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Clastic "intrusions," instead of being sheetlike, may have one long and two short
dimensions, like a rod. When they have this shape they are termed pipes. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"... was relatively thin and sheetlike, while in half a dozen other cases it occupied
practically all of the space between the ovotestis and the body wall. ..."
7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"630), and Merulius lacrymans, the dry-rot fungus, likewise, " weeps " so much
water that it accumulates in big drops on the surface of its sheetlike ..."
8. Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements: the by George William Tillson (1912)
"They are always found in thin sheetlike forms and are important factors in the
make-up of rock, both as to color and structure. ..."
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