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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sheeting
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
plastic
▪ Also widely grown are tomatoes and strawberries, nowadays mainly under plastic sheeting.
▪ As strawberries ripen, push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they can't rot on the soil.
▪ There were no more coffins available, but by four o'clock we had buried the soldiers, wrapped in plastic sheeting.
▪ Wardle Storeys, he plastic sheeting concern, had a nervous session, falling 27p to 266p.
▪ Soon, he knew, the two bodies would be neatly parcelled in plastic sheeting.
▪ Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it.
▪ A cheaper alternative to glass is to double glaze them yourself with plastic sheeting, but this will obviously affect their appearance.
polythene
▪ Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
▪ An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.
▪ Place the sections end to end, on fine grade polythene sheeting, then roll up to form a tube.
▪ Fill in any voids as you progress 9 cover the concrete with either polythene sheeting or wet sacking while it cures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The roof was covered in plastic sheeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also widely grown are tomatoes and strawberries, nowadays mainly under plastic sheeting.
▪ An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.
▪ Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting - the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory.
▪ It is understood to have started when tarpaulin sheeting blew on to heaters drying a new resin coating on repair work.
▪ It was comfortable, but covered with thin rubber sheeting, as was all the soft furnishing.
▪ One efficient method of covering the roof is to combine twin wall Lexon Thermoclear sheeting with Twinfix aluminium structural glazing bar.
▪ Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
▪ To save draining the cistern, make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheeting

Sheeting \Sheet"ing\, n.

  1. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

  2. (Hydraul. Engin.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

  3. The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.

Sheeting

Sheet \Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheeting.]

  1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. ``The sheeted dead.'' ``When snow the pasture sheets.''
    --Shak.

  2. To expand, as a sheet.

    The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky.
    --J. R. Drake.

    To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

Wiktionary
sheeting

n. 1 fabric used to make sheets (bedding). 2 (context engineering English) A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment.

WordNet
sheeting

n. fabric from which bed sheets are made

Usage examples of "sheeting".

Don't go out on the street like a sheeting fool and pick on a street-sleeper in filthy clothes.

So put up with this sheeting notion of being dragged around a cold vault.

Whatinole would I do with that gang of sheeting lizzies you tail behind you?

I didn't know it was more than one ' of their sheeting demonstrations, slogan-shouting and waving banners around!

There's no use telling me - try telling some of these sheeting neighbours of ours.

Guinevere thought of what the mode-masters were saying about a swing back to a more natural look in shiggies and wished she had never dreamed up this sheeting party.

Now, as I was saying, what McLuhan didn't foresee although he came sheeting close to it was - "

And the first day I try to use it comes in this sheeting little pest and says I'm violating the clean-air laws.

There hasn't been any clean air in our neighbourhood for sheeting weeks because of rotting dreck all over the streets and now it's beginning to block the passages!

The sheeting pattern's the same except in some places it's gone further than others.

I was told to carry on with my ordinary activities and if you've read my original brief you sheeting well ought to know that it includes being interested in everything relevant or not relevant to my assignment.

Grundy Memorial Foundation and some sheeting little prig turned up some forgotten ordinance and the case comes up next week.

Now, suddenly, the sheeting Yatakangis had laid a long black shadow of disaster half around the world.

For minor emergencies - which had sheeting well better be emergencies, nonetheless - you'll have a well-disguised gas-gun.

We show a sheeting great profit on the Hogan scene so far and we can afford to be generous.