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What (who) is sleet - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Sleet (disambiguation); Sleeting
Sleet
·vi To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
II. Sleet ·noun The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
III. Sleet ·noun Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
sleet
Sleet is rain that is partly frozen.
...blinding snow, driving sleet and wind.
N-UNCOUNT
sleet
¦ noun rain containing some ice, or snow melting as it falls.
?US a thin coating of ice formed by sleet or rain freezing on coming into contact with a cold surface.
¦ verb (it sleets, it is sleeting, etc.) sleet falls.
Derivatives
sleety adjective
Origin
ME: of Gmc origin.
Wikipedia
Sleet
Sleet is a regionally variant term for some meteorological phenomena:
- Ice pellets, pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States)
- Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)
- Glaze, a smooth coating of ice formed on objects by freezing rain.
Examples of use of sleet
1. A mixture of rain, snow and sleet socked the Midwest.
2. "It is going to rain, sleet and wet snow generally.
3. Snow, sleet and freezing rain caused treacherous driving conditions throughout the Pacific Northwest.
4. Moments of fine clarity alternate with grey murkiness and falls of sleet or hail.
5. A wintry mix of snow and sleet reached as far south as Mississippi.