sleet
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English[edit]
A small amount of slush can be produced from a mixture of rain and snow
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English slete, probably from Old English slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, ultimately derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *slautô (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)).[1] The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)
- (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
- Synonym: ice pellets
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, New England) A mixture of rain and snow.
- Synonym: slush
- (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
- (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Translations[edit]
ice pellets
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mixture of rain and snow
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glaze ice formed by freezing rain
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Verb[edit]
sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)
- (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.
- 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:
- It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.
Translations[edit]
to be in a state in which sleet is falling
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References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
sleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sleet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- AMS Glossary of Meteorology
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Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sleet c (uncountable)
Synonyms[edit]
Verb[edit]
sleet
- singular past indicative of slijten
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of sleeën
- (archaic) plural imperative of sleeën
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