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Another word for sleeve

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Noun
      1. A flat paper container, especially for a letter, usually having a gummed flap.
      2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
      3. An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane or the outer coat of a virus.
      1. A short coat usually extending to the hips.
      2. The skin of a potato.
      3. The dust jacket of a book or phonograph record.
      1. To place something upon or over, so as to protect or conceal:
      2. To overlay or spread with something:
      3. To put a cover or covering on:
      1. A usually close-fitting case or covering for a blade, as of a sword.
      2. Any of various similar coverings.
      3. An enveloping tubular structure, such as the base of a grass leaf that surrounds the stem or the tissue that encloses a muscle or nerve fiber.
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Sentence Examples

  • She clutched his sleeve as he turned away.

  • He lifted a sleeve and consulted his watch.

  • Taran complied and rolled up his sleeve to display his bandaged forearm.

  • He pushed her sleeve up to see her band.

  • The slowest speed is given by means of a tangent screw which is carried by a ball-bearing on the flange of the telescope sleeve, whilst its nut is double-jointed to a ring that encircles the flange of the heliometer-tube.

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