sleet

«sleet» in Mova's school dictionary: a mix of rain and snow, or small icy drops that fall from… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (sleet, uncountable); verb (it sleets, sleeted, sleeting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sleet is a mix of rain and snow, or small icy drops that fall from the sky. tree →

2) To sleet means that sleet is falling: «It is sleeting». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and weather lessons, sleet is a kind of precipitation, along with rain, snow and hail; it happens when the air is close to freezing. In safety, sleet makes roads and paths icy and slippery. Weather forecasts often say «rain turning to sleet».

examples

• Cold sleet stung our faces on the way to school. tree →
• It started to sleet just as the match began. tree →
• The path was slippery after the sleet. tree →
• Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all kinds of precipitation. tree →
• The forecast says sleet tonight. tree →
• We stayed inside while it sleeted all afternoon. tree →
• Wear a waterproof coat in sleet. tree →

note

Uncountable noun: «some sleet», never «a sleet». As a verb it uses «it»: «It is sleeting». In the USA sleet usually means small ice pellets; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand it means wet snow mixed with rain. Hail is bigger, hard balls of ice.

In the corpora

• Then «a small sting of frozen sleet on the skin woke them as from a dream».
• Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all called precipitation.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sleet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.