sleet
To be in a state in which sleet is fallingTo be in a state in which sleet is falling.
» It's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.
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1 senses(impersonal)To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
- precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow
Examples
5 sentencesIt's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.
Tomorrow there'll be sleet.
It was sleeting.
deEs gab Schneeregen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
There was sleet.
deEs gab Schneeregen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Sleet is falling.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-WFrom 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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Forms
sleets, sleeting, sleeted, sleetedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle