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sleet 
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| 1. | precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail). |
| 2. | glaze (def. 17). |
| 3. | Chiefly British. a mixture of rain and snow. |
| 4. | to send down sleet. |
| 5. | to fall as or like sleet. |
[Origin: 1250–1300; (n.) ME slete; akin to LG slote, G Schlossen hail; (v.) ME sleten, deriv. of the n.]
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sleet
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n.
intr.v. sleet·ed, sleet·ing, sleets To shower sleet. [Middle English slete, from Old English *slēte.] sleet'y adj. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
sleet
c.1300, slete, either from an unrecorded O.E. word or via M.H.G. sloz, M.L.G. sloten (pl.) "hail," from P.Gmc. *slautjan- (cf. dial. Norw. slutr, Dan. slud, Swed. sloud "sleet"), from root *slaut-. The verb is attested from c.1325.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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| 1. | partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) |
verb | |
| 1. | precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
sleet [sliːt] noun
rain mixed with snow or hail
Example: That isn't snow — it's just sleet.
sleet [sliːt] verbExample: That isn't snow — it's just sleet.
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to hail or snow, with a mixture of rain
Example: It seems to be sleeting outside.
Example: It seems to be sleeting outside.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
| sleet
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Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of frozen or partially frozen raindrops, often when the temperature is near the freezing point. Sleet usually leaves the cloud in the form of snow that melts as it passes through warm layers of air during its descent. The raindrops and partially melted snowflakes then freeze in the colder layers nearer the earth before striking the ground as pellets of ice, which usually bounce. By contrast,hail forms by the accumulation of layers of ice on the hailstone as it moves up and down in the cloud, and hailstones can become much larger than sleet pellets. The word sleet is also used informally to describe a mixture of snow, sleet, and rain. |
| The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
Sleet
Sleet\, n. (Gun.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Sleet
Sleet\, n. [OE. sleet; akin to MHG. sl?z, sl?ze hailstone, G. schlosse; of uncertain origin.] Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Sleet
Sleet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeting.] To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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