What's the difference between sleeting and sleeving?

Sleeting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleet

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.

Sleeving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
  • (2) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (3) Lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery was done in 3 patients, of which one had bilobectomy plus one segmentectomy with segmental bronchoplasty, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and wedge excision of the pulmonary artery in 1, and regular lobectomy with sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 1.
  • (4) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
  • (5) Distention of the antral sleeve by hydrostatic pressure (3-25cm H2O) caused stepwise and significant increase in gastrin release that was reversible.
  • (6) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (7) Transperineurial arterioles are defined as any arteriole that is confined to a perineurial cell compartment, which would include all arterioles within the perineurium proper or within perineurial sleeves in the epi- or endoneurium.
  • (8) When right upper sleeve lobectomy was performed, only limited peribronchial inflammation related to PDT procedure was detected indicating only slight extrabronchial influence of PDT.
  • (9) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
  • (10) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
  • (11) A sleeve resection of the involved trachea with reanastomosis was successful, and the patient is alive and well with no evidence of tumor four years later.
  • (12) Sleeve resection is the ideal form of excisional therapy for benign endobronchial tumors, bronchostenosis, tumors of low-grade malignant potential, and for selected cases of carcinoma.
  • (13) Between the submitochondrial sleeve and the axoneme is a space, the cytoplasmic canal, that is open to the exterior posteriorly.
  • (14) Since 1975 200 tracheal sleeve resections for iatrogenic tracheal and subglottic laryngeal stenoses have been performed in our institution.
  • (15) Conservative surgery by sleeve resection without pulmonary resection was performed.
  • (16) In 1976 Dent (Gastroenterology 71: 263-267) introduced a sleeve-catheter device for obtaining continuous recording of lower esophageal sphincter pressure.
  • (17) As a rule, conventional myelography showed only minor root-sleeve deformity.
  • (18) Entomophthoromycosis was diagnosed by finding wide eosinophilic sleeves intimately surrounding thin-walled hyphae.
  • (19) Bonus points, of course, for anyone wearing gloves and short-sleeved shirt.
  • (20) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .

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