sleet
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”)).[1] The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sliːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːt
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, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
- (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
- (firearms) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]ice pellets
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precipitation of rain–snow mixture
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glaze ice formed by freezing rain
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See also
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[edit]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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[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sleet c (uncountable)
Synonyms
[edit]Verb
[edit]sleet
- singular past indicative of slijten
- inflection of sleeën:
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sleet
- Alternative form of slete
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