SLEEVE

Sleeve

Sleeve 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, ...

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sleeve

Noun

  1. The part of a garment that covers the arm.
    The sleeves on my coat are too long.
  2. A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
    This bearing requires a sleeve so the shaft will fit snugly.
  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.
  4. A narrow channel of water.
  5. sleave; untwisted thread

Verb

  1. to fit a sleeve to


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