ˈkæn.vəs ʃiːt ʃit ʃiːt ʃit ˈtæblɔɪd cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping sheet the body come down as if in sheets The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width paper used for writing or printing newspaper with half-size pages any broad thin expanse or surface a sheet of ice (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane