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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sleeve
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coat sleeve
▪ The small boy was pulling at his mother's coat sleeve.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
left
▪ Now get to work on his left sleeve.
▪ The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.
▪ Features epaulettes, an inside pocket, two side pockets and a pencil holder on the left sleeve.
▪ McCready stared back and wondered why Edwards always insisted on keeping his handkerchief up his left sleeve.
long
▪ She wished she had dressed the child in long sleeves.
▪ This version was more modest, with long sleeves and a pleated skirt.
▪ Design: round neck, long sleeve top and long johns, women's and men's designs available.
▪ Wear long sleeves because short sleeves chop up the body line.
▪ Very suitable - high neck and nice long sleeves.
▪ But over at the Crazy Shirts shop, customer counts have been as limp as a soaked long sleeve.
▪ Design: zip neck, long sleeve top with lightly padded stand up collar.
▪ Design: crew neck, long sleeve top with stripy inserts down sleeves.
short
▪ The top has an attractive squared neck with short, set-in sleeves.
▪ Wear long sleeves because short sleeves chop up the body line.
▪ Crew neck short sleeve style in red or yellow.
▪ Perhaps it was best that Mrs Clinton abandoned the short sleeves.
▪ They wore pale lemon and green summer dresses with short puffed sleeves and a cross stitching of embroidery round their chests.
▪ She was wearing a brightly flowered summer dress, high necked and with short sleeves.
▪ Auguste wondered if his blue one piece button-to-neck stockinette costume were not too daring with its knee-length shorts and short sleeves.
▪ Luckily it had short sleeves, and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring.
■ NOUN
jacket
▪ The next time Mould appeared the other jacket sleeve was ripped off and a leg of his trousers.
▪ If I roll my jacket sleeves, they will roll theirs.
▪ Her fingers clutched at the light material of his jacket sleeve as though imploring him to listen.
record
▪ And as any good record sleeve will tell you, re-recording a record without a licence is illegal.
▪ Jim is a record sleeve designer by profession.
▪ He studied record sleeves, watched the cash sales.
▪ Yes, that is exactly what the record sleeve is saying.
shirt
▪ Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
▪ Her shirt sleeve falls open at the cuff as she turns back, and I see the razor marks on her wrist.
▪ Dickinson, in shirt sleeves, shuddered.
▪ Because his shoulders are narrow, he never works in his shirt sleeves, and is seldom seen publicly in casual clothes.
▪ Tweed was clad in shirt sleeves and a pair of lightweight slacks as he stared out of his office window.
▪ He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers.
▪ His tie was loose and he was in his shirt sleeves.
▪ Tattoos peek out from shirt sleeves.
■ VERB
catch
▪ The thing beyond the stair-rail slashed downwards at Cardiff again and caught his sleeve.
▪ For as it passed, it reached out and caught my sleeve and rent it.
grab
▪ The Doctor ran for cover, grabbing the poet's sleeve and pulling him to the side.
▪ At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent, and she is only just in time with the sick bag.
▪ She grabbed Steve's sleeve, their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net.
pull
▪ One was Hank, who stood at his side, pulling his sleeve to make him stop.
▪ Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma.
▪ The dark pulled at her sleeves. `... you killed.. ` No.
▪ Like pulling the sleeves of a jacket up to the elbow or having their hands in their jacket pockets.
▪ I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white, numbed fingers.
▪ Asked if he had any identifying marks he pulled up his sleeve and pointed to a tiny tattoo of an obscene word.
push
▪ The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.
roll
▪ Pope had already removed his jacket and begun to roll back his sleeve.
▪ Merchants on the east end, near College Avenue, are also rolling up their sleeves.
▪ He had rolled up his sleeves.
▪ Citizens rolled up their sleeves and went to work.
▪ And it will not hurt at all to roll one sleeve past the crook of the elbow and offer a long pale forearm.
▪ Often the participants go off-site for several days, roll up their sleeves. and go at it n o-holds-barred.
▪ Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
▪ He would remove his jacket, roll up his sleeves, and play Ping-Pong with the kids.
touch
▪ The old man touched her sleeve.
tug
▪ Benjamin tugged Ruthven by the sleeve, indicating he wished to talk to him.
▪ But, like Machiavelli, they are for ever tugging at the sleeves of politicians.
▪ The goat-kicking woman tugged at my sleeve and pointed, saying something I did not understand.
▪ Then the little boy, our guide, was with us again, tugging Mr Thabane's sleeve, talking excitedly.
▪ A little old woman, clearly upset, was going about tugging at people's sleeves and pointing to the figures.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have an ace up your sleeve
have another card up your sleeve
laugh up your sleeve
roll your sleeves up
▪ We've got a crisis on our hands, and we need to roll up our sleeves and do something about it.
▪ Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
▪ In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
roll your sleeves/trousers etc up
▪ Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
▪ In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
wear your heart on your sleeve
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is an astutely packaged and worthwhile collection none the less, with translations from the Zulu on the sleeve.
▪ He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
▪ On completion, the top of the sleeve was not 44 centimetres.
▪ She lowered the sleeves, down, down, until they reached her wrists.
▪ Thick, dark hair curled around his face and his rolled-up sleeves revealed strong, well-muscled arms.
▪ Very suitable - high neck and nice long sleeves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleeve

Sleeve \Sleeve\ (sl[=e]v), n. See Sleave, untwisted thread.

Sleeve

Sleeve \Sleeve\, n. [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl?fe, sl?fe; akin to sl?fan 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.)

    1. A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

    2. A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

    3. A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.

  4. (Elec.) A double tube of copper, in section like the figure 8, into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called

    a McIntire joint.

    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 or To laugh up one's 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 pinon the sleeve of, or To hang on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.

Sleeve

Sleeve \Sleeve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved (sl[=e]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.] To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sleeve

Old English sliefe (West Saxon), slefe (Mercian) "arm-covering part of a garment," probably literally "that into which the arm slips," from Proto-Germanic *slaubjon (cognates: Middle Low German sloven "to dress carelessly," Old High German sloufen "to put on or off"). Related to Old English slefan, sliefan "to slip on (clothes)" and slupan "to slip, glide," from PIE root *sleubh- "to slide, slip."\n

\nCompare slipper, Old English slefescoh "slipper," slip (n.2) "woman's garment," and expression slip into "dress in." Mechanical sense is attested from 1864. To have something up one's sleeve is recorded from c.1500 (large sleeves formerly doubled as pockets). Meaning "the English Channel" translates French La Manche.

Wiktionary
sleeve

n. 1 The part of a garment that covers the arm. (from 10th c.) 2 A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. (from 19th c.) 3 A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. (from 20th c.) 4 A narrow channel of water. 5 sleave; untwisted thread. 6 (context British Columbia English) A serving of beer measuring between 14 and 16 ounces. 7 (label en US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers. 8 (cx electrical English) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint. vb. (context transitive English) to fit a sleeve to

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WordNet
sleeve

  1. n. the part of a garment that is attached at armhole and provides a cloth covering for the arm [syn: arm]

  2. small case into which an object fits

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Wikipedia
Sleeve

A sleeve ( O. Eng. slieve, or slyf, a word allied to slip, cf. Dutch sloof) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. The pattern of the sleeve is one of the characteristics of fashion in dress, varying in every country and period. Various survivals of the early forms of sleeve are still found in the different types of academic or other robes. Where the long hanging sleeve is worn it has, as still in China and Japan, been used as a pocket, whence has come the phrase to have up one's sleeve, to have something concealed ready to produce. There are many other proverbial and metaphorical expressions associated with the sleeve, such as to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, and to laugh in one's sleeve.

Sleeve length varies from barely over the shoulder (cap sleeve) to floor-length. Most contemporary shirt sleeves end somewhere between the mid-upper arm and the wrist.

Early mediaeval sleeves were cut straight, and underarm triangle-shaped gussets were used to provide ease of movement. In the 14th century, the rounded sleeve cap was invented, allowing a more fitted sleeve to be developed.

Sleeve (construction)

In construction, a sleeve is used both by the electrical and mechanical trades to create a penetration.

Sleeve (disambiguation)

A sleeve can be:

  • Sleeve, that part of a garment which covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips
  • A tube into which another tube is inserted, which in the case of small tubes is called a thimble
  • A Sleeve (construction), used in construction by electricians and plumbers to create an opening in cast concrete to create a penetration to permit the passage of a penetrant
  • A liner for the cylinder of an engine
  • A basketball sleeve, an accessory worn by basketball players
  • A record sleeve, the outer covering of a vinyl record.
  • A sleeve tattoo, a tattoo arrangement that covers most or all of a person's arm
  • A beer sleeve or koozie
  • A card sleeve used to protect trading cards from damage during play
  • A sleeve valve, a type of valve mechanism for piston engines
  • A sleeve gastrectomy, a surgical weight-loss procedure.
  • Sleeve known for a Christmas song with particular emphasis on the chorus which was lampooned by Anthony Cumia of the Opie and Anthony Show and for which the musician presented a tongue-in-cheek version tailored for Cumia.
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Usage examples of "sleeve".

Bel, the present duchess of Hawkscliffe, considered one of the most ravishing women in Society, wore a gown of soft rose silk with long sleeves of transparent aerophane crepe.

The Senite stepped onto the veranda, its hands folded politely in its long white sleeves and a look of care upon its ageless face.

Annamaria Roccaro was the last to get into position, smiling in apology as she crowded next to Aiken Drum and felt the hard tools in his pockets pressing through the sleeves and skirts of her habit.

Sin unlaced the sleeves of his aketon as he headed toward the washstand.

By some oversight, Brigitte did not make it on to the final album sleeve.

Charles Manson and all the other fanatics who had decoded the album sleeves or lyrics to find secret messages addressed only to them.

Ad Lib club, 132-4, 139 Adams, John and Marina, 126, 254 Aitken, Jonathan, 228 Albufeira, Portugal, 204 album sleeve designs, 333-48, 500-506, albums, by the Beach Boys, 280-81 by the Beatles Abbey Road, 550-59, 565 Beatles: Love Songs, Beatles for Sale, 38, 173 Let It Be, 470, 534-9, 549-51, 575, 578 Magical Mystery Tour, Please Please Me, 93, 95, 153, 583 Revolver, 190, 268, 281, 290-92 Rubber Soul, 268, 278, 290 Sgt.

Left-handed compliment that it was, Alec returned the grin as he snapped the coin up his sleeve a final time.

This sudden awareness passed quickly, and he was once more in his own apiary, studying the single bee as she worked to get the nectar from his sleeve.

The black armazine gown, equipped with long, tight sleeves that would have been considered screamingly out of mode at Court, was bordered at the collar, cuffs, and hem with wide bands of black ducape stitched with winged crescents in silver.

His resistless word split asunder the orb of the moon: the obedient planet stooped from her station in the sky, accomplished the seven revolutions round the Caaba, saluted Mahomet in the Arabian tongue, and, suddenly contracting her dimensions, entered at the collar, and issued forth through the sleeve, of his shirt.

Monsieur Barat went through what was obviously his personal ritualthe adjusting of the metal expanding bands that held up his shirt sleeves, the flexing of fingers, the wiping of his glasses, which he put to one side, the screwing into place of the eyeglass.

Theodore de Beze wore the dress of a courtier, black silk stockings, low shoes with straps across the instep, tight breeches, a black silk doublet with slashed sleeves, and a small black velvet mantle, over which lay an elegant white fluted ruff.

The biologist would occasionally rub at the frosted glass of a tank with the cuff of his sleeve, peer inside, and mutter.

Then he slew a cassowary and a flamingo and a grebe and a heron and a bittern and a pair of ducks and a shouting peacock and a dancing crane and a bustard and a lily-trotter and, wiping the sacred sweat from his brow with one ermine-trimmed sleeve, slew a wood pigeon and a cockatoo and a tawny owl and a snowy owl and a magpie and three jackdaws and a crow and a jay and a dove.