Значение

значений: 4
  1. (США, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

    Graupel, gefrierende Nässe

  2. (Ирландия, Northeastern, Британия, США, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

    Schneeregen

    мо́крый снегmókryj sneg, дождь со сне́гомdoždʹ so snégom, ледяно́й дождьledjanój doždʹ

    partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)

  3. (исчисляемое, редкое, неисчисляемое)A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.

    Glatteis

    мо́крый снегmókryj sneg, дождь со сне́гомdoždʹ so snégom, ледяно́й дождьledjanój doždʹ

  4. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Примеры

предложений: 5
  1. It's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.

  2. Tomorrow there'll be sleet.

  3. It was sleeting.

    deEs gab Schneeregen.

  4. There was sleet.

    deEs gab Schneeregen.

  5. Sleet is falling.

Переводы

языков: 8
Русский
По значениям 2
precipitation of rain–snow mixture:
glaze ice formed by freezing rain:
Deutsch
По значениям 3
ice pellets:
precipitation of rain–snow mixture:
glaze ice formed by freezing rain:

Происхождение

From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-W

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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Формы

мн. число: sleets
Ед. числоsleet
Мн. числоsleets

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 3

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 9

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