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SLEET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("sleet" is a kind of...):

downfall; precipitation (the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist))

Derivation:

sleet (precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow)

sleety (consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow

Example:

If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "sleet" is one way to...):

come down; fall; precipitate (fall from clouds)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was sleeting all day long

Derivation:

sleet (partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow))

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