noun · countable / uncountable · rare

sleet

sleet · sleets

ожеледиця, ожеледь, ожеледа

дождь со снегом, ледяной дождь, мокрый снег

Graupel, Schneeregen, gefrierende Nässe

Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakesPellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

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/sliːt/

» It's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.

Meaning

4 senses

(US, countable, uncountable)Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
Graupel, gefrierende Nässe
(Ireland, Northeastern, UK, US, countable, uncountable)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)
(countable, rare, uncountable)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
(countable, uncountable)The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Examples

5 sentences

It's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.
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Tomorrow there'll be sleet.
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It was sleeting.
deEs gab Schneeregen.
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There was sleet.
deEs gab Schneeregen.
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Sleet is falling.
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Translations

8 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

precipitation of rain–snow mixture:

glaze ice formed by freezing rain:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

ice pellets:

precipitation of rain–snow mixture:

glaze ice formed by freezing rain:

Origin

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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