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sleet

noun
🔊/sliːt/
🔊/sliːt/
[uncountable]
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  1. a mixture of rain and snow雨夹雪
    • The rain was turning to sleet.那雨正变成雨夹雪。
    • The wind was blowing hard and bringing with it sleet.风刮得很大，并夹着雨夹雪。
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    Oxford Collocations DictionarySleet is used before these nouns:
    • shower
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    Word OriginMiddle English: of Germanic origin; probably related to Middle Low German slōten (plural) ‘hail’ and German Schlosse ‘hailstone’.

sleet

verb
🔊/sliːt/
🔊/sliːt/
 [intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they sleet
🔊/sliːt/
🔊/sliːt/
he / she / it sleets
🔊/sliːts/
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past simple sleeted
🔊/ˈsliːtɪd/
🔊/ˈsliːtɪd/
past participle sleeted
🔊/ˈsliːtɪd/
🔊/ˈsliːtɪd/
-ing form sleeting
🔊/ˈsliːtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈsliːtɪŋ/
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  1. when it is sleeting, a mixture of rain and snow is falling from the sky下雨夹雪
    • It’s sleeting!下雨夹雪了！
    Topics Weatherc2
    Word OriginMiddle English: of Germanic origin; probably related to Middle Low German slōten (plural) ‘hail’ and German Schlosse ‘hailstone’.