Blanket vs. Sheet: What's the Difference?

A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.

A thin rectangular piece of fabric for a bed, often used in a pair with one sheet below and one sheet above a person.

A layer that covers or encloses

A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.

Applying to or covering all conditions or instances

A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.

Applying to or covering all members of a class

A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse

To cover with or as if with a blanket

A moving expanse

To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish

A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

To apply to generally and uniformly without exception

(Computers) A single page of rows and columns constituting a subunit of a spreadsheet.

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

(Geology) A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.

A layer of anything.

A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.

A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

(Mathematics) A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.

General; covering or encompassing everything.

Sheets The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.

(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.

To make into sheets.

(transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

To flow or fall in a sheet

(transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.

To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.

(transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).

Being in the form of a sheet

Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A thin, flat layer of solid material.

To cover with a blanket.

A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

(nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

A sail.

Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed;

(curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.

Anything that covers;

(nonstandard) A layer of veneer.

A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

(figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.

Cover as if with a blanket;

(geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

Form a blanket-like cover (over)

(nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

Broad in scope or content;

A distinct level or stage within a game.

(transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.

(transitive) To form into sheets.

(intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

(nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; - usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

To expand, as a sheet.

Any broad thin expanse or surface;

Used for writing or printing

Bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

Newspaper with half-size pages

A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

Come down as if in sheets;

Cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping;