(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a large rectangular piece of cotton or other cloth that you sleep on or cover yourself with in a bed.
Once a week, a maid changes the ~s.
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2.
A ~ of paper is a rectangular piece of paper.
...a ~ of newspaper...
I was able to fit it all on one ~.
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3.
You can use ~ to refer to a piece of paper which gives information about something.
...information ~s on each country in the world.
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4.
A ~ of glass, metal, or wood is a large, flat, thin piece of it.
...a cracked ~ of glass...
Overhead cranes were lifting giant ~s of steel...
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5.
A ~ of something is a thin wide layer of it over the surface of something else.
...a ~ of ice.
...a blue-grey ~ of dust.
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6.
as white as a ~: see white
see also balance ~ , broad~ , dust ~ , fact ~ , ground~ , news-~ , score~ , spread~ , work~