sleeves
plural of sleeve
sleeves
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sleeve
• Eveless
Source: Wiktionary
Sleeve, n.
Definition: See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Sleeve, n. Etym: [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl, sl; akin to sl to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.]
1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.
2. A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton.
3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts. (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes. Sleeve button, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff.
– Sleeve links, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband.
– To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times.
– To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.
Sleeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.]
Definition: To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 March 2025
(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
