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sleeve /sliːv /noun1The part of a garment that wholly or partly covers a person’s arm: a shirt with the sleeves rolled up...- Cut the garment neckline, sleeves and lower edge to the desired finished length.
- And the flared sleeve dress shirt and strapless dress combo is just unusual enough to be interesting but not weird.
- Today, he wore black slacks and a very light blue dress shirt, sleeves rolled up past his elbows.
2A protective paper or cardboard cover for a record, CD, or DVD: an album sleeve...- 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.
- Our CDs are packaged using the exact artwork of the original album in our custom LP style cardboard sleeves.
2.1A protective or connecting tube fitting over or enclosing a rod, spindle, or smaller tube.The width adjusts hydraulically, and cylinders and return sleeves are protected by steel oversleeves....- Paperboard cartons and sleeves are used to enclose plastic tubs.
- The carrier is a sleeve that encloses bearings and seals intended to prevent water from entering the sterndrive housing at the drive shaft.
3A windsock.At higher wind speed (approx. 30 km/hour, the sleeve inflates and indicates visually wind direction and speed....- At night, the wind direction indicator is illuminated with an array of overhead lights to highlight the wind sleeve.
3.1A drogue towed by an aircraft.An unusual role was as a target tug trailing a sleeve drogue for air-to-air firing practice....- If a 'sleeve' was shot away or otherwise became detached, its recovery was worth a mad scramble.
Phrases up one's sleeve wear one's heart on one's sleeve Derivatives sleeved adjective [often in combination]: a cap-sleeved shirt...- The collections of some of the designers taking part in the show continued to lend prominence to bare-shoulder chiffon blouses, bat-like sleeved blouses and asymmetric chiffon gowns.
- Well let me tell you that what you'll find are grey plastic moccasins, elasticated waists and short - sleeved shirts with more static cling than a workbenchful of vices.
- Not that a leather jacket, PVC trousers, a torn cap, sleeved T-shirt and pointy boots would have gone down any better.
Origin Old English slēfe, slīef(e), slȳf; related to Middle Dutch sloove 'covering'. Rhymes achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves |