(n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
(n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
(v. i.) To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
(2) These showers do look like becoming hail and sleet showers in places, with snow in the mountains.” The Met Office has a yellow ice warning in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland for Friday morning.
(3) The Met Office issued a severe weather warning overnight when rain turned into sleet and snow as it moved eastwards.
(4) The storm dropped more than 10 inches of snow on parts of south-west Oklahoma overnight, and a winter weather advisory remained in place for much of the south-east of the state with freezing rain and sleet in the cards.
(5) Five years ago, as Branson was declaring SpaceShipTwo to be “the sexiest spaceship ever” at an unveiling at the Mojave air and space port, howling winds, sleet and near-freezing temperatures reduced the invited glitterati – politicians, actors, glamour women and some of the world’s top aerospace engineers – to human icicles.
(6) The combination of downpours in the south and snow and sleet in the north has left some forecasters predicting the coldest start to May for 70 years.
(7) The rain, sleet and snow will be replaced by dry and frosty weather overnight with black ice expected to be an additional hazard in many areas.
(8) The gale-force winds, snow, sleet and rain that battered parts of Britain and left around 10,000 homes across the north-east of England without power are set to continue on Wednesday.
(9) Between six inches and a foot (15-30 cm) of snow was predicted from Chicago to Detroit, AccuWeather said, while icy sleet and rain was forecast for much of the north-east, where a brief thaw was forecast before intense cold returned late Monday.
(10) A powerful storm system that spread hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain widely across the midsection of the US rumbled towards the densely populated eastern seaboard on Sunday, promising more of the same.
(11) Outside a slate-grey sky is pondering whether to dispense driving sleet or merely torrential rain.
(12) Photograph: Brynjar Gunnarsson for the Guardian At the Alvogenvollurinn stadium, home of KR Reykjavik, the sleet comes barrelling in sideways from the open side of the ground.
(13) Power outages were reported in Virginia, parts of West Virginia, Maryland and the metropolitan Washington, DC, area following freezing rain, wet snow and sleet.
(14) Parts of northwest and southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia got snow, while sleet and freezing rain prevailed west and north of Richmond.
(15) "Some central and northern parts of the UK may remain generally dry, before the unsettled weather with rain, sleet or snow is expected to move across the north and perhaps the east of the country later next week and probably into the following week."
(16) The area of rain, sleet and snow will clear from the north during the day."
(17) Aisling Creevy, forecaster with MeteoGroup , said: "There is currently a band of rain sleet and snow across northern Wales, the north-west Midlands and northern England which will generally move southwards throughout the day leaving very cold and icy conditions behind it.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s cold, it’s snowing – or is that sleet?
(19) Aisling Creevy, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said a slow-moving band of rain, sleet and snow would continue to cause problems on higher ground as it moved south.
(20) Sleet and snow are expected to hit large swathes of Britain, with colder conditions going into Monday.
Snow
Definition:
(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(3) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(4) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(5) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
(6) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(7) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
(8) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
(9) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
(10) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
(11) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
(12) As Florian Grimm, the local head of snow management, told a colleague recently: “Today nobody would accept stones any more, or spots of grass in spring.
(13) It was minus five degrees and snowing on the day we fitted him.
(14) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View over the snow fields and lake.
(16) He added the rainfall could turn to snow in parts of Scotland.
(17) The original 1858 edition of John Snow's On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, from which came the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology reprints in 1971 and 1989, was donated to the Wood Library-Museum by Ralph Waters of Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967.
(18) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
(19) The early appearance of the stable snow cover facilitates a rapid drop in the number of NFRS cases as early as in October, while prolonged autumn with rains, snow, periods of thaw and ice-covered ground leads to a rise in NFRS morbidity occurring in autumn and winter and ending only in March.
(20) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.