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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#m1)

2) To sleet means that sleet is falling: «It is sleeting». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x1)
- It started to sleet just as the match began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x2)
- The path was slippery after the sleet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x3)
- Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all kinds of precipitation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x4)
- The forecast says sleet tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x5)
- We stayed inside while it sleeted all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x6)
- Wear a waterproof coat in sleet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/#x7)

### 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».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/20/)
- [Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all called precipitation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/14-the-water-cycle/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sleet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.