sleet
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from a Germanic language. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud).[1] The term is akin to dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, New England) A mixture of rain and snow.
- Synonyms: slush, ice pellets
- Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.
- (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Translations
mixture of rain and snow
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rain which freezes before reaching the ground
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See also
Verb
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.
Translations
to be in a state in which sleet is falling
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References
Further reading
- sleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Template:projectlink
- AMS Glossary of Meteorology
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
sleet ? (uncountable)
Synonyms
Verb
sleet
- (deprecated template usage) singular past indicative of slijten
- (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of sleeën
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of sleeën
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