What's the difference between mattress and sheet?

Mattress


Definition:

  • (n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
  • (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (2) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
  • (3) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
  • (4) This article presents the author's preferred technique for reconstructing the auricle, simultaneously using Mustarde's mattress sutures, Cochrane's anterior scoring of the antihelix, and the approximating of the concha to the mastoid.
  • (5) In April this year I purchased a bed and mattress from John Lewis online for £580 but after two days still had no email confirmation.
  • (6) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
  • (7) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
  • (8) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
  • (9) A one-way analysis of variance indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the low-air loss bed (Mediscus) compared to the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the foam mattress with loose-fitting top cover (Comfortex).
  • (10) We discuss in particular the mattress-model approach by Mouritsen and Bloom, who take matching between protein and lipid hydrophobic thicknesses as a determining factor for the phase behavior.
  • (11) In 25 cases atypical resections of liver tumors have been performed using PGA-mesh to secure mattress sutures.
  • (12) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Guardian After Stockholm, they moved to a tiny house in west London with no living room or kitchen, and shared a mattress on the floor.
  • (13) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
  • (14) Infants remained on the oscillating air mattress for at least 7 days or until 34 weeks postmenstrual age.
  • (15) Identifying mattresses which help to prevent pressure sores can result in substantial long-term savings.
  • (16) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
  • (17) People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.
  • (18) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
  • (19) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
  • (20) The authors draw attention to vacuum mattresses which are a modern appliance for the immobilization of casualties and patients.

Sheet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
  • (v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
  • (v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
  • (v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
  • (v. t.) the book itself.
  • (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
  • (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
  • (v. t.) A sail.
  • (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
  • (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
  • (2) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
  • (3) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
  • (4) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (5) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (7) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
  • (8) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
  • (9) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
  • (10) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
  • (11) A template showing typical histograms from commonly occurring CLPD was also produced on an acetate sheet.
  • (12) These findings suggest that the presence of features such as large prominent nucleoli, tumor growth in sheets, individual-cell necrosis, and nuclear pleomorphism may be used to predict recurrence of subtotally resected meningiomas that would not be classified as malignant by traditional criteria.
  • (13) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
  • (14) The cortical vitreous of the normal (control) eye appeared to be a lamellar structure composed of sheets of collagen mesh.
  • (15) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
  • (16) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
  • (17) The simultaneous binding of the polypeptidic molecules to two opposing bilayers appears to be required in order to preserve the beta-sheet structure at pressures over approximately 9 kbar: a small proportion of the polypeptide, most likely the molecules at the surface of the aggregated bilayers, was found to convert to unordered and eventually to alpha-helical conformations in the pressure range 9-19 kbar.
  • (18) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
  • (19) Cells containing A-layer and isolated A-layer sheets specifically bound laminin and fibronectin with high affinity.
  • (20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.