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Sleet vs Sleev - What's the difference?

sleet | sleev |

As nouns the difference between sleet and sleev

is that sleet is a mixture of rain and snow while sleev is simplified spelling of sleeve

As verbs the difference between sleet and sleev

is that sleet is to be in a state in which sleet is falling while sleev is simplified spelling of sleeve

sleet

English

Noun

(-)
  • (chiefly, UK, Ireland) A mixture of rain and snow.
  • Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.
  • (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

    • Synonyms

    * ice pellets * slush

    See also

    * snow * freezing rain * graupel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
    • I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting .

    Usage notes

    References

    * AMS Glossary of Meteorology

    Anagrams

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    External links

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    sleev

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonstandard) (simplified spelling of sleeve)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1991 , year_published=2009 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=US Army , title=Aviation Unit and Intermediate Maintenance , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=US Army , isbn= , page=BULK-9 , passage=INSULATION SLEEV ELECTRICAL-PLASTIC, FLEXIBLE, … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=KL Narayana , title=Machine Drawing , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=New Age International , isbn=9788122419177 , page=xiii , passage=Cotter Joint with Sleev }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1228, sleev, sleevd

    Verb

  • (nonstandard) (simplified spelling of sleeve)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1789 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=John Bell , title=Bell's Classical Arrangment of Fugitive Poetry , chapter=Stanza of Spenser citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of Michigan , isbn= , page=105 , passage=His sweeping scythe the white-sleevd mower plies, … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1793 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor=Lynda Pratt , author=Robert Southey , title=The Collected Letters of Robert Southey , chapter=Letter 40 citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of Maryland , isbn= , page= , passage=By thy full sleevd black gown — by thy still blacker heart. / Where Genius nor Virtue possess one small part }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year= , year_published=2004 , edition= , editor=Eric Robinson, David Powell , author=John Clare , title=Major Works , chapter=Poems of the Helpston Period citation , genre= , publisher=Oxford Univ Press , isbn=9780192805638 , page=69 , passage=And short sleevd gown that half to guess reveals … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Hoccleve, Sir Israel Gollancz , title=Early English Text Society: Issue 72 , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of California , isbn= , page=xii , passage=… responsibility of long-sleevd retainers defending their lord when he's attackt in the street,... }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1228, sleev, sleevd