Halyard vs. Sheet — What's the Difference?

In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, flag or yard. The term halyard comes from the phrase "to haul yards".

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 rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, or yard.

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

(nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.

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

A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.

A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse

A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag

A moving expanse

A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To make into sheets.

To flow or fall in a sheet

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

Being in the form of a sheet

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

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

A thin, flat layer of solid material.

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

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

A sail.

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

(nonstandard) A layer of veneer.

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

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

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

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;