sleeving
sleeving is the present participle and gerund of sleeve.
Meaning of sleeve
Verb
sleeve (third-person singular simple present sleeves, present participle sleeving, simple past and past participle sleeved)
- 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.2006, J. B. Bobo, Modern Coin Magic, →ISBN, page 99
Noun
sleeving (countable and uncountable, plural sleevings)
- Hollow flexible tube used as insulation for wires and cables.
- Pull up the sleeving along the cable, including the copper wire, then using a cigarette lighter heat the sleeving to make it shrink.1996, A.L. Brown, Vehicle Security Systems: Build Your Own Alarm and Protection Systems, page 50
Forms of sleeving
| plural | sleevings |
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Questions about sleeving
- What does sleeving mean?
- Sleeving means hollow flexible tube used as insulation for wires and cables.
- What is sleeving the present participle and gerund of?
- Sleeving is the present participle and gerund of sleeve.
- What part of speech is sleeving?
- Sleeving is a noun.
- What is the plural of sleeving?
- The plural of sleeving is sleevings.
Words near sleeving in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeving (page history and authors); sleeve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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