sleeve

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/sliːv/

noun 5verb 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

long, short | full, puffed, voluminous, wide | rolled-up | coat, shirt, etc.

VERB + SLEEVE

push back/up, roll up

He pushed his sleeves up to his elbows before washing the dishes.

roll down

tug at

A young child tugged at her mother's sleeve to show her a picture.

PREP

in ~s

The office was warm, so most workers rolled up their sleeves and got to work.

on a/the ~

My shirt has a small stain on the sleeve from when I was painting yesterday.

PHRASES

in (your) shirtsleeves

Definitions

noun

The part of a garment that covers the arm.

The sleeves on my coat are too long.

A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.

This bearing requires a sleeve so the shaft will fit snugly.

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.

A tattoo covering the whole arm.

A narrow channel of water.

Even from Southhampton ' s shore through Wilts and Somerset The Attrebates in Bark unto the bank of Tames Betwixt the Celtic sleeve and the Sabrinian streams

verb

To fit and attach a sleeve to an upper garment (e.g. to a shirt, blouse, sweater, jacket, coat, etc.) or to a folder.

To hide something up one's sleeve.

There are certain types of sleeving that are difficult to perform with the shirt sleeves down, and it is difficult and risky to attempt sleeving while wearing a shirt with "French" cuffs.

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Synonyms

noun — the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and th

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

up one's sleeve

Hidden and ready to be produced as needed; in reserve.

I have tried everything I can think of, and I don't have anything more up my sleeve.

ace up one's sleeve

A surprise advantage of which others are not aware.

SCP-7450 is an apocalyptic scenario where the Foundation has to resort to an ace up their sleeves and belief in a higher power solves the problem, but not in the way anyone would e

laugh up one's sleeve

Alternative form of laugh in one's sleeve.

laugh in one's sleeve

to laugh in secret or to oneself, usually gloatingly

Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for

trick up one's sleeve

Synonym of ace up one's sleeve.

Example Bank

The sleeves on my coat are too long.

Wiktionary

This bearing requires a sleeve so the shaft will fit snugly.

Wiktionary

Even from Southhampton ' s shore through Wilts and Somerset The Attrebates in Bark unto the bank of Tames Betwixt the Celtic sleeve and the Sabrinian streams

Wiktionary

There are certain types of sleeving that are difficult to perform with the shirt sleeves down, and it is difficult and risky to attempt sleeving while wearing a shirt with "French" cuffs.

Wiktionary

I have a card up my sleeve.

Tatoeba · #25545

Roll up your right sleeve.

Tatoeba · #27076

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