sleet

sleet  (slt)

n.

1. Precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen or partially frozen raindrops.

2. A mixture of rain and snow or hail.

3. A thin icy coating that forms when rain or sleet freezes, as on trees or streets.

intr.v. sleet·ed, sleet·ing, sleets

To shower sleet.

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[Middle English slete, from Old English *slte.]

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sleety adj.

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sleet

Noun

partly melted falling snow or hail or (esp. US) partly frozen rain

Verb

to fall as sleet [Germanic]

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sleet  (slt)

Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of frozen or partially frozen raindrops, often when the temperature is near the freezing point. Sleet usually leaves the cloud in the form of snow that melts as it passes through warm layers of air during its descent. The raindrops and partially melted snowflakes then freeze in the colder layers nearer the earth before striking the ground as pellets of ice, which usually bounce. By contrast,hail forms by the accumulation of layers of ice on the hailstone as it moves up and down in the cloud, and hailstones can become much larger than sleet pellets. The word sleet is also used informally to describe a mixture of snow, sleet, and rain.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sleet - partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) downfall, precipitation - the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
Verb	1.	sleet - precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet" come down, precipitate, fall - fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"

Translations

sleet [sliːt] n → aguanieve f

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sleet [sliːt] n → neige fondue

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sleet [sliːt] n → Schneeregen m

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sleet [sliːt] n → nevischio