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Definition: Sleeve |
SleeveNoun1. The part of a garment that is attached at armhole and provides a cloth covering for the arm. 2. Small case into which an object fits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleeve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Sleeve \Sleeve\, noun. [Old English sleeve, sleve, Anglo-Saxon; akin to put on, to clothe; compare to Old Dutch sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, German schlaube a husk, pod.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The outer, cylindrical contact of a switchboard plug, which is farthest from the tip and closest to the cord. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A tubular carton with open ends. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | To furnish, cover, or surround with a sleeve. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Sleeve To hang on one's sleeve. To listen devoutly to what one says; to surrender your freedom of thought and action to the judgment of another. The allusion is to children hanging on their mother's sleeve. To have in one's sleeve is to offer a person's name for a vacant situation. Dean Swift, when he waited on Harley, had always some name in his sleeve. The phrase arose from the custom of placing pockets in sleeves. These sleeve-pockets were chiefly used for memoranda, and other small articles. To laugh in one's sleeve. To ridicule a person not openly but in secret; to conceal a laugh by hiding your face in the large sleeves at one time worn by men. Rire sous cape. To pin to one's sleeve, as, "I shan't pin my faith to your sleeve," meaning, "I shall not slavishly believe or follow you." The allusion is to the practice of knights, in days of chivalry, pinning to their sleeve some token given them by their ladylove. This token was a pledge that he would do or die. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A sleeve surrounding and strengthening a punch usually of long slender dimension. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | One of the refractory elements protecting the stopper rod. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | A long fabric container for a parachute canopy, to control its deployment from a parachute pack or stowage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SleeveSynonym: arm (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar. |
Clothing | Glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve. |
Concealment | Adverb: secretly; Adjective: in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark; Adjective: |
Contempt | Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful). |
Crossing | Net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation. |
Disrespect | Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat. |
Flattery | Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust. |
Latency Implication | Laugh in one's sleeve; keep back; (conceal). |
Manifestation | Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish). |
Memory | Remind; suggest; (inform ); prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize. |
Ridicule | Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up. |
Servant | Verb: serve; wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore. |
Servility | Pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of. |
Support | Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You've got something up your sleeve (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) Sire Uri must be laughing up his sleeve! (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé) She's got names for them, too: Sleeve, Pocket, Collar (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Lyrics | I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) If I wear my heart out on my sleeve (Honesty; performing artist: Billy Joel) And I touched her on the sleeve (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) Pulling up your sleeve so I could see the Rolley bling (Love Don't Cost A Thing; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) With that New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Acrylic painting of three Redheads flying low over water in late afternoon by Arthur G. Anderson, North 5995 CTH O.T., Onalaska, Wisconsin 54650. A freelance artist and collector of antique cars. In addition to waterfowl, Anderson likes to paint bald eagles, white-tailed deer, and other species inhabiting the area near his home. *first time a sleeve was used instead of a plate. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | On board his ship, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 1919. Note the World War I service chevrons on his uniform sleeve. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Stands by the steering wheel in his ship's pilot house, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 1919. Note his binoculars and the World War I service chevrons on his uniform sleeve. Credit: NAVY. |  | Nineteenth-century albumin print of a painted portrait. It depicts Commodore Levy holding a scroll inscribed "Author of the Abolition of Flogging in the Navy of the United States". The uniform seen in this image features four sleeve stripes, signifying the rank of Captain. Levy died in 1862, several years prior to the adoption of this element, indicating that the portrait was painted posthumously, possibly in the 1870s or 1880s. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Two Chief Petty Officers enjoy a game of "Acey-Deucy" on deck, circa 1904-06. The man at left wears an Ex-Apprentice's "figure-eight knot" badge on his right sleeve. Note coiled fire hose and sewing machine in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sfax, Tunisia. Archbishop Spellman of New York talking with French officials on the streets. The official with the braid on his sleeve is the governor of Sfax, Monsieur R. Lement. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Jondrette opened a closet near the chimney, took out an old cap and put it on his head after brushing it with his sleeve. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He settled back and ate more slowly now, chewed evenly, and wiped the grease from his mouth with his sleeve. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Put your arm in the sleeve. (references) | |
People with Raynaud's should also wear wristlets to close the space between the sleeve and mitten. (references) | ||
Business | Another "Joker" which the Swiss have up their sleeve is "peak energy". (references) | |
Economic History | Gabon | Gabon's first European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word "gabao," a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sleeve" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sleeve" is used about 958 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 958 | 7,596 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sleeve": a card up one's sleeve ♦ air sleeve ♦ balloon sleeve ♦ Bishop sleeve ♦ distance sleeve ♦ dolman sleeve ♦ feeder sleeve ♦ hang on the sleeve of ♦ have an ace up one's sleeve ♦ have smth. up one's sleeve ♦ have up one's sleeve ♦ Hippocrates' sleeve ♦ in one's sleeve ♦ Kimono sleeve ♦ ladle sleeve ♦ laugh in one's sleeve ♦ laugh up one sleeve ♦ laugh up one's sleeve ♦ laugh up smb.'s sleeve ♦ long sleeve ♦ lough in one's sleeve ♦ on the sleeve of ♦ packing sleeve ♦ pagoda sleeve ♦ pluck smb. by the sleeve ♦ poke sleeve ♦ pudding sleeve ♦ puffed sleeve ♦ raglan sleeve ♦ record sleeve ♦ revolving sleeve ♦ seal with extensible sleeve ♦ short sleeve ♦ slashed sleeve ♦ sleeve bearing ♦ sleeve board ♦ sleeve brick ♦ sleeve button ♦ sleeve links ♦ spacer sleeve ♦ spinnaker sleeve ♦ stopper sleeve ♦ tailstock centre sleeve ♦ tailstock sleeve ♦ tailstock spindle sleeve ♦ to hang on the sleeve of ♦ To laugh in the sleeve ♦ to laugh up one's sleeve ♦ to pinon the sleeve of ♦ To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve ♦ wear one's heart on one's sleeve ♦ wind sleeve. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sleeve": sleeve-buckler, sleeve-design, sleeve-fasteners, sleeve-lace, sleeve-like, sleeve-link, sleeve-note, sleeve-notes, sleeve-protectors, sleeve-tugging. | |
Ending with "sleeve": long-sleeve. | |
Containing "sleeve": shirt-sleeve diplomacy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cd sleeve | 272 | rubber sleeve | 26 |
green sleeve | 227 | short sleeve sweatshirt | 26 |
sleeve | 140 | video sleeve | 26 |
sleeve tattoo | 102 | ejector sleeve | 26 |
long sleeve t shirt | 102 | darton sleeve | 26 |
laptop sleeve | 83 | computer sleeve | 25 |
shirt long sleeve | 61 | card sleeve | 25 |
penis sleeve | 49 | love sleeve | 25 |
cd paper sleeve | 49 | cylinder sleeve | 24 |
green record sleeve | 47 | green sleeve tab | 24 |
plastic sleeve | 45 | sleeve tattoo tribal | 23 |
shrink sleeve | 43 | dvd sleeve | 22 |
green sleeve lyrics | 43 | corporate logo long sleeve shirt | 22 |
air conditioner sleeve | 39 | fuser sleeve | 22 |
sleeve bearing | 39 | photo sleeve | 22 |
la sleeve | 37 | joe rocket nicky action long sleeve shirt | 21 |
record sleeve | 34 | joe rocket joe rocket long sleeve shirt | 21 |
shirt short sleeve | 32 | joe rocket long sleeve shirt | 21 |
sleeve hitch | 31 | shift corporate logo long sleeve shirt | 21 |
b b mean sleeve | 28 | basket sleeve | 20 |
vhs sleeve | 20 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sleeve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qeskë (bladder, casing, follicle, packet, sac), mbështjellëse (cover, envelope, envelopment, folder, pod, wrapper), mëngë (afflux, arm, branch, confluent, Creek), këmishë (book jacket, caul, shimmy, shirt, wrapper). (various references) | |
Arabic | كم (another, you, your), الجلبة جزء أنبوبي معدني, ردن يجعل للثوب ردنين, ردن. (various references) | |
Basque | mahuka. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръкав (arm, horn), щуцер (nipple, nozzle, orifice), цилиндър (beaver, chimney-pot hat, cylinder, drum, plug, silk hat, stovepipe hat, tile, top hat, topper), кожух (case, housing, jacket, mantle, sheath, shell), калъф на грамофонна плоча, гилза (case, liner, shell), втулка (bolster, collar, ferrule, insert, insertion, liner, quill, spile, tampion, tenon), муфа (coupling, socket, tappet, thimble), барабан (barrel, cylinder, drum, revolver, roll, swift, tambour), преходен конус. (various references) | |
Catalan | m nega. (various references) | |
Chinese | 袖子 . (various references) | |
Czech | trubice (pipe, tube), rukáv, objímka (socket), obal (casing, container, cover, husk, packaging, packing, padding, tunic, wrap, wrapper, wrapping). (various references) | |
Danish | ærme. (various references) | |
Dutch | mouw. (various references) | |
Faeroese | erma. (various references) | |
Farsi | استین زدن به , استین , دراستین داشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | holkki (holder), hiha. (various references) | |
French | manche, chemise, bague. (various references) | |
Frisian | mouwe. (various references) | |
German | Muffe (bell, boot, boss, bush, bushing, collar, coupling, dog, hub, nipple, pipe coupling, sliding dog, socket), Manschette (cuff, frill, stranglehold, wristband), Hülse (bark, bushing, capsule, cartridge, case, Hull, husk, involucre, peel, pod, shell, shuck), ärmel (sleeves), Ärmel (sleeves). (various references) | |
Greek | μανίκι (handle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שרוול (armlet), בית י" (glove, handle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ingujj (shirt-sleeve), vezetőhüvely, tömlőfoltozó betétgumi, szélzsák (air sleeve, air sock, air tee, wind cone, wind sock, wind-sock), persely (bank, busing, money box), karmantyú (cuff, cup, muff, socket), kabátujj, könyvborító (bookjacket, dust cover, dust jacket), hanglemezborító, hüvely (barrel, cod, Hull, husk, placket, pod, scabbard, sheath, shuck, vagina), célzsák (drogue, sleeve target, towed). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ermi. (various references) | |
Italian | manica (arm, bunch, gang), manicotto (coupling, muff). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 袖 , 衣手 , スラ 街 (bunting on two strikes, bust-waist-hip measurements, petticoat, slalom, sleep, slim, slimmer, slip, slippers, slit, slum quarters, slump, slurry, three-piece suit, three-wheeled bicycle, vital statistics). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そで, "ろもで, スリーヴ , スリーブ . (various references) | |
Korean | 소매 (retail, retailing). (various references) | |
Manx | feddan (aqueduct, barrel, channel, chanter, fife, flageolet, flute, pipe, sleeving, tube, tubing, vessel, whistle). (various references) | |
Occitan | marga. (various references) | |
Papago | nowikud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | manga (boulder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eeveslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manga (arm, mango), luva (gantlet, gauntlet, glove, mitten), casquilho (bushing, cockscomb, dandy, exquisite, thimble), bucha (padding, plug, stopgap, stopper, tampion, wad). (various references) | |
Romanian | manşon (chuck, collar, muff, nut, sheath, thimble), mânecã (arm). (various references) | |
Romansch | mongia. (various references) | |
Romany | bay. (various references) | |
Russian | рукав (hose, hosepipe). (various references) | |
Scottish | muinichill , muilichinn (a sleeve). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rukav (arm), naglavak. (various references) | |
Spanish | manga (arm, game, hose, hosepipe, lift), manguito (muff, union). (various references) | |
Sranan | mow, anu (arm, hand). (various references) | |
Swedish | ärm (arm), bussning (Bush). (various references) | |
Thai | ใส่แขนเสื้อ, แขนเสื้อ (arm), ปลอกหุ้ม (slipcover). (various references) | |
Turkish | zıvana (Bush, joggle, liner, mortice, mortise, tenon), yen (spathe, wristband, yen), kol düzeni, kol (arm, branch, crank, embranchment, flipper, foreleg, handle, limb, offset, ramification, rod, rounds, stick, stolon, subsection, tappet, wing), ek bileziği. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яeс. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рукав (arm, hosepipe), муфта (clutch, collar, muff, nut, socket, thimble). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ống bọc ngo i. (various references) | |
Welsh | llawes. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sleeve": sleeved, sleeveless, sleevelet, sleevelets, sleeves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sleeve": shirtsleeve. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sleeve": shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves. (additional references) | |
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"Sleeve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleeve, leeve, Salkever, seeve, selee, selive, sheeve, skeeve, skeve, sleece, sleete, sleev, sleevs, sleevy, sleeze, slef, slege, sleve, sliev, spleef, Tsmlevel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleeve" (pronounced slē"v) |
| 3 | -l ē" v | believe, cleave, disbelieve, Interleave, leave, relieve. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: levees. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-s-v" | |
-1 letter: elves, levee. | |
-2 letters: eels, else, eves, lees, seel, vees. | |
-3 letters: eel, els, eve, lee, lev, see, sel, vee. | |
-4 letters: el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: elevens, releves, sleeved, sleeves. | |
+2 letters: believes, bevelers, deleaves, elevates, levelers, leverets, relieves, revelers, selvedge, severely, televise, vesseled. | |
+3 letters: believers, bevellers, cleveites, cleverest, developes, electives, elevateds, elevenses, elevenths, endleaves, envelopes, eventless, eversible, levellers, levelness, leverages, nerveless, oversleep, relievers, replevies, revealers, reveilles, revellers, revelries, reversely, selective, selvedged, selvedges, severable, sleepover, sleevelet, televiews, televised, televises, velverets. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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