sleet

incontável

A noun referring to a form of precipitation consisting of partially melted snow or a mixture of rain and snow.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa uma forma de precipitação composta por neve parcialmente derretida ou por uma mistura de chuva e neve; também pode se referir à camada escorregadia formada no solo por essa precipitação.

1. Mixed precipitation A2 formal

   A type of precipitation consisting of partially melted snow or a mixture of rain and snow.

   • The weather forecast warned of sleet and icy roads.
   • Sleet fell steadily throughout the morning, covering the ground in a slushy layer.
   • Drivers were advised to be cautious due to the sleet making the streets slippery.

   🇵🇹Precipitação mista

• sleets plural form
• sleets' possessive plural form
• sleet's possessive singular form

A verb used to describe the meteorological phenomenon where rain and snow fall together, or where partially frozen rain falls.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para descrever o fenômeno meteorológico em que chuva e neve caem juntas, ou quando cai chuva parcialmente congelada, formando gelo ao tocar o solo.

1. Precipitate as sleet B1 formal

   To fall as a mixture of rain and snow, or to produce such precipitation.

   • It began to sleet heavily during the afternoon commute.
   • The weather forecast said it would sleet overnight.
   • When it sleets, the roads become very slippery.

   🇵🇹Cair chuva com neve

• sleeted past participle
• sleeted past simple
• sleeting present participle
• sleets third person singular