"silver sheet" meaning in English

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        "A thin sheet of silver, e.g. used in metalworking or jewellery."
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          "word": "silver screen"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Charles Donald Fox, Milton L. Silver, editors, Who's Who on the Screen, page 2",
          "text": "Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, producers of Paramount Pictures today, has its product displayed upon the silver sheet in every country where there is a projection machine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 August 28, Variety, page 8",
          "text": "Ushers rushed up and dragged the belligerent one off before serious damage was done either to himself or the silver sheet.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A cinema screen onto which movies are projected."
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        "(colloquial, dated, 1920s-1940s) A cinema screen onto which movies are projected."
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        {
          "text": "After years in local theatre productions, he made his debut on the silver sheet and became known around the world."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921 June 25, Frank E. Woods, “Confidentially...”, in The Photodramatist, page 7",
          "text": "I began writing for the screen, which hadn't as yet been christened the \"silver sheet,\" while employed on the Dramatic Mirror in New York City",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1924 July 25, Malcolm H. Oettinger, “The Eternal Undergraduate”, in Picture Play Magazine, page 34",
          "text": "On the screen Virginia Valli impresses one as mature, womanly, and reserved; off the silver sheet there is an elfin charm about her...",
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        "By extension, movies, the film industry, or that which is related to movies or cinema (often preceded with \"the\")"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(1920s-1940s, idiomatic, dated) By extension, movies, the film industry, or that which is related to movies or cinema (often preceded with \"the\")"
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        "A thin sheet of silver, e.g. used in metalworking or jewellery."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Charles Donald Fox, Milton L. Silver, editors, Who's Who on the Screen, page 2",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 August 28, Variety, page 8",
          "text": "Ushers rushed up and dragged the belligerent one off before serious damage was done either to himself or the silver sheet.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cinema screen onto which movies are projected."
      ],
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        "(colloquial, dated, 1920s-1940s) A cinema screen onto which movies are projected."
      ],
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          "text": "After years in local theatre productions, he made his debut on the silver sheet and became known around the world."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921 June 25, Frank E. Woods, “Confidentially...”, in The Photodramatist, page 7",
          "text": "I began writing for the screen, which hadn't as yet been christened the \"silver sheet,\" while employed on the Dramatic Mirror in New York City",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924 July 25, Malcolm H. Oettinger, “The Eternal Undergraduate”, in Picture Play Magazine, page 34",
          "text": "On the screen Virginia Valli impresses one as mature, womanly, and reserved; off the silver sheet there is an elfin charm about her...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "By extension, movies, the film industry, or that which is related to movies or cinema (often preceded with \"the\")"
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        "(1920s-1940s, idiomatic, dated) By extension, movies, the film industry, or that which is related to movies or cinema (often preceded with \"the\")"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    {
      "word": "silver screen"
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