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発音

• IPA: /sliːt/
• 韻: -iːt

名詞

sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)

1. (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

   Synonym: ice pellets

2. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
   • 2007, “Is This Christmas?”, performed by The Wombats:

     Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet

3. (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.

   Synonyms: black ice, glaze

4. (firearms) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

派生語

参考

• freezing rain
• graupel
• hail

参照

• Sleet in Encyclopedia Britannica

動詞

sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)

1. (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

   I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.

   • 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:

     It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.

参照

Further reading

• sleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sleet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• AMS Glossary of Meteorology

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