pall vs sheet

pall

verb
  • To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. 

  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. 

  • To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. 

noun
  • Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. 

  • A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. 

  • A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses. 

  • Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”). 

  • A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. 

sheet

verb
  • To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material. 

  • To form into sheets. 

  • Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily. 

  • To trim a sail using a sheet. 

noun
  • A layer of veneer. 

  • 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 sail. 

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

  • A thin, flat layer of solid material. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. 

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

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