| pedantic | | |
| adj. | 1. academic, donnish, pedantic | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects. |
| ~ scholarly | characteristic of scholars or scholarship.; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude" |
| role | | |
| n. (act) | 1. function, office, part, role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role" |
| ~ duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.; "the duties of the job" |
| ~ capacity | a specified function.; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary" |
| ~ hat | an informal term for a person's role.; "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly" |
| ~ portfolio | the role of the head of a government department.; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs" |
| ~ lieu, stead, place, position | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" |
| ~ second fiddle | a secondary role or function.; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. character, part, persona, role, theatrical role | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play.; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| ~ personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. |
| ~ bit part, minor role | a small role. |
| ~ heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play. |
| ~ hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. |
| ~ ingenue | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play. |
| ~ name part, title role | the role of the character after whom the play is named. |
| ~ heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ baddie, villain | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. function, purpose, role, use | what something is used for.; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?" |
| ~ usefulness, utility | the quality of being of practical use. |
| ~ raison d'etre | the purpose that justifies a thing's existence. |
| n. (act) | 4. role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting.; "what is your role on the team?" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ gender role | the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness.; "your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity" |
| ~ position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player.; "what position does he play?" |
| sheet | | |
| n. (object) | 1. sheet | any broad thin expanse or surface.; "a sheet of ice" |
| ~ expanse | a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky. |
| n. (communication) | 2. piece of paper, sheet, sheet of paper | paper used for writing or printing. |
| ~ slip of paper, slip | a small sheet of paper.; "a receipt slip" |
| ~ signature | a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book. |
| ~ folio, leaf | a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book). |
| ~ tear sheet | a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication. |
| ~ foolscap | a size of paper used especially in Britain. |
| ~ style sheet | a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication. |
| ~ worksheet | a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements. |
| ~ revenue stamp, stamp | a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid. |
| ~ paper | a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bed sheet, sheet | bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs. |
| ~ bed linen | linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases). |
| ~ contour sheet, fitted sheet | a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress. |
| n. (shape) | 4. plane, sheet | (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" |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ cartesian plane | a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates. |
| ~ facet plane | the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube). |
| ~ midline, midplane | the median plane of the body (or some part of the body). |
| ~ orbital plane | (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting. |
| ~ picture plane | the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work. |
| ~ tangent plane | the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface. |
| n. (communication) | 5. rag, sheet, tabloid | newspaper with half-size pages. |
| ~ newspaper, paper | a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.; "he read his newspaper at breakfast" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. flat solid, sheet | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width. |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ blackboard, chalkboard | sheet of slate; for writing with chalk. |
| ~ blank | a piece of material ready to be made into something. |
| ~ board | a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose.; "he nailed boards across the windows" |
| ~ plastic film, film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things. |
| ~ laminate | a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers. |
| ~ membrane | a thin pliable sheet of material. |
| ~ panel | sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something. |
| ~ plate | a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic. |
| ~ photographic plate, plate | a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. |
| ~ plate glass, sheet glass | glass formed into large thin sheets. |
| ~ sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate. |
| ~ stencil | a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. mainsheet, sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet | (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. |
| ~ sailing, seafaring, navigation | the work of a sailor. |
| ~ futtock shroud | shroud that is part of a ship's rigging. |
| ~ line | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line" |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. canvas, canvass, sail, sheet | a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel. |
| ~ balloon sail | any light loose sail. |
| ~ crossjack, mizzen course | the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast. |
| ~ fore-and-aft sail | any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction. |
| ~ foresail | the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel. |
| ~ reef | one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind. |
| ~ headsail | any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel. |
| ~ mainsail | the lowermost sail on the mainmast. |
| ~ main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast. |
| ~ piece of cloth, piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric. |
| ~ press of canvas, press of sail | the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely. |
| ~ royal | a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast. |
| ~ sailing ship, sailing vessel | a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts. |
| ~ save-all | a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail. |
| ~ skysail | the sail above the royal on a square-rigger. |
| ~ square sail | a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast. |
| ~ topgallant, topgallant sail | a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast. |
| ~ topsail | a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast. |
| v. (weather) | 9. sheet | come down as if in sheets.; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" |
| ~ rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, pelt, stream, pour | rain heavily.; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" |
| v. (contact) | 10. sheet | cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping.; "sheet the body" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
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