1The part of a garment that wholly or partly covers a person's arm.

1. 1.1 A protective paper or cardboard cover for a record, CD, or DVD.
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   • Lambie painted over most of the cover art and removed the records, leaving empty paper sleeves painted in many colors.
   • But she doesn't regret turning down the offer to design the album sleeve.
   • This state of flux in the music industry means that graduating and going into record sleeve design is probably going to be difficult.
   • The pictures on the album sleeve sum up the nature of Moffat's dance-influenced dreams.
   • I would often thumbtack the covers to my bedroom wall, leaving the album itself in its paper sleeve.
   • The packaging is nice enough, a cardboard sleeve covering the case itself.
   • They came in cardboard sleeves, and when you bought them you could put them in a big plastic bag to carry them home.
   • She designed their graphic, starkly monochrome record sleeves.
   • It does not look out of place: the dark sleeve design features spooky silhouettes instead of the bespectacled schoolboy who grins from covers in Britain.
   • You don't get the tin boxes but you do get the first seven DVDs in a cardboard sleeve for $124.99.
   • Our CDs are packaged using the exact artwork of the original album in our custom LP style cardboard sleeves.
   • If you pick up one of these records and find the sleeve appealing, there's a good chance that the music inside it will appeal too.
   • A record sleeve is one thing, but a serious magazine is another.
   • I've seen these fantastic sleeves in secondhand record stores without realising they were by him.
   • It all comes down, though, for me, to the record sleeves.
   • Pictures of the artists rarely appeared on the record sleeves on the grounds that many of them were black and record companies worried that this put off the mainly white buyers.
   • Inside is the game CD encased in a paper sleeve, a forty-page manual and a registration card.
   • I would slide the mysterious black disc out of its paper sleeve.
   • Gavin enlisted friends to help record the song and design the sleeve of the CD.
   • Their record sleeves and videos are cryptic, self-mythologising, deliberately uninformative.

   Synonyms

   wrapping, wrapper, wrap, sheath, sheathing, envelope, cover, covering
2. 1.2 A protective or connecting tube fitting over or enclosing a rod, spindle, or smaller tube.
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   • After we finished, we were ready to pour the top caps and then tie the bronze sleeve to the spindle as before and set in the bottom sleeves.
   • The pop rivet itself looks something like a nail with a flanged metal sleeve over one end.
   • I didn't know this, but in the Old Days they'd slip a paper sleeve over the bottle to keep the condensation from dripping on your lap.
   • The lever the operator holds controls a hydraulically actuated piston that connects to this sleeve gear.
   • If a pipe penetration must be located within that zone, use of a schedule 40 steel pipe sleeve is required.
   • Wrap the original cardboard sleeve over the brush, or use brown paper and tie it with string or a rubber band.
   • The sleeves slide onto the roller frame and lock into place with a setscrew.
   • Paperboard cartons and sleeves are used to enclose plastic tubs.
   • However, PVC jacketing, or running the copper through a PVC sleeve, might be a good idea for a variety of reasons.
   • The sleeve restrains the grout flow and expands up to twice its previous diameter, molding itself in the shapes and spaces within the walls.
   • One piece is folded to form a sleeve or tube through which the belt is passed, and the other is sewn to this envelope to form the loop that holds the gun.
   • The shaft bushing and the resilient element tightly enclose the shaft while a firm connection with the shaft sleeve is secured.
   • This may result in a recommendation to move the location of the friction sleeve further away from the cone tip.
   • The outer cable conductor is enclosed by a contact sleeve which has a plurality of radially resilient segments.
   • The magnesium sleeve in the seat tube was not even damaged.
   • If soft material is encountered, the operator inserts a steel sleeve to prevent collapse.
   • The carrier is a sleeve that encloses bearings and seals intended to prevent water from entering the sterndrive housing at the drive shaft.
   • Gases going past the slot are deflected away from the shooter's face by a flange on the bolt sleeve.
   • How long, do you imagine, before the paper sleeves the sticks arrive in are printed with health warnings and a helpline number?
   • The width adjusts hydraulically, and cylinders and return sleeves are protected by steel oversleeves.

   Synonyms

   ring, band, collet, pipe, flange, rim, rib