sleet
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- //sliːt//
Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
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Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
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Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet
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rareA smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
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The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Étymologie
From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“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”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
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To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.
Formes
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- passé
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- participe présent
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- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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sleet · Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
sleeve · The part of a garment that covers the arm.sleigh · A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over…Sleigh · A surname.