Definitions for sleeve

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sleeve sleeve

Spelling: [sleev]

IPA: /sliv/

Sleeve is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in sleeve (eeelsv).

Definitions for sleeve

noun

1. the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
2. an envelope, usually of paper, for protecting a phonograph record.
3. Machinery. a tubular piece, as of metal, fitting over a rod or the like.

Idioms

1. have something up one's sleeve, to have a secret plan, scheme, opinion, or the like:
2. laugh up / in one's sleeve, to be secretly amused or contemptuous; laugh inwardly:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with sleeves.
2. Machinery. to fit with a sleeve; join or fasten by means of a sleeve.

Origin of sleeve

before 950; Middle English sleve, Old English slēfe (Anglian), slīefe; akin to Dutch sloof apron

Examples for sleeve

On this trip, Rodman put his heart on his sleeve—and his foot in his mouth—and said he “loves” Kim.

Emma finished the sleeve of the blouse she was mending with a flourish.

Great beads of sweat stood on his brow and he wiped them away with his sleeve.

When the gamma rays enter the sleeve, they interact with that photon gas, annihilating into electron-positron pairs.

Prince Harry has a reputation for wearing his heart on his sleeve.

Then Crane took Porter gently by the sleeve and drew him half within the stall.

I think with Jason, he really does wear his heart on his sleeve.

Borrowing language from his father, Paul said he does not wear his religion “on my sleeve.”

Well, I know some one who has a sleeve with something up it, that's all.

And he turned his head and covered his face with his sleeve.