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(slēt) 
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To shower sleet.
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- Precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen or partially frozen raindrops.
- A mixture of rain and snow or hail.
- A thin icy coating that forms when rain or sleet freezes, as on trees or streets.
To shower sleet.
[Middle English slete, from Old English *slēte.]
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Very wet snow, or a mixture of rain and snow, usually developing when temperatures are just above freezing point.
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sleet, precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If they pass through a layer with a temperature below the freezing point, they turn into sleet. Snowflakes that have melted by passing through a warm layer will turn into sleet if they then pass through a freezing layer. Sleet often falls together with snow and rain, and may deposit an icy coating on exposed surfaces. Sleet occurs only during the winter, while hail, a different form of icy precipitation, may fall at any time of the year.
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IN BRIEF: A mixture of falling rain and snow.
When it is very cold, the rain will turn to sleet.
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Water droplets falling from clouds that become clear ice pellets after passing through a layer of clouds with freezing temperatures. Sleet thus indicates a temperature inversion. Sleet may also develop from the freezing of melted snow, as the latter falls through a colder layer of air near the ground. On weather charts, sleet is represented by 
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Sleet refers to two distinct forms of precipitation:
- Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada).
- Ice pellets, one of three forms of precipitation in a US-style "wintry mix", the other two being snow and freezing rain (US).
The latter is referred to as sleet mainly by the United States National Weather Service. In some countries, such as Canada and the UK, sleet is not a recognized meteorological term. Environment Canada will call it a mix of snow and rain or "a wintery mix" and will use the term "ice pellets" to describe frozen, granular precipitation.
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Sleet
Dansk (Danish)
n. - slud, tøsne, isslag
v. intr. - være slud
Nederlands (Dutch)
natte sneeuw
Français (French)
n. - neige fondue
v. intr. - tomber de la neige fondue
Deutsch (German)
n. - Schneeregen
v. - graupeln
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μετεωρ.) χιονόλυτο, χιονόνερο, (ψιλό) χαλάζι
v. - ρίχνω χιονόνερο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - neve com chuva
v. - saraivar
Русский (Russian)
дождь со снегом, гололед
Español (Spanish)
n. - aguanieve, cellisca
v. intr. - cellisquear
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - snöblandat regn, snöglopp, snöslask, regn och hagel, isbark, isbildning
v. - bilda snöglopp
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
冰雨, 雨夹雪, 下冻雨, 下雨夹雪
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 冰雨, 雨夾雪
v. intr. - 下凍雨, 下雨夾雪
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 진눈깨비, 우빙, 도로의 살얼음
v. intr. - 진눈깨비가 내리다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 霙
v. - みぞれが降る
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مطر متجمد, قطقط (فعل) ترسل ألسماء ألقطقط
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שלג מעורב בגשם
v. intr. - ירד שלג (מעורב בגשם)
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