sleeve

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  1. noun A part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm.
  2. noun A case into which an object or device fits: a record sleeve.
  3. transitive verb To furnish or fit with sleeves or a sleeve.
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  • The last card up his sleeve was the Zofia's almost magically high lift-over-drag ratio. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • Since the tunic had long ago lost any color it might have once possessed, the purple splotch on the sleeve was a cheerful improvement. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Our only clues as to what dream machine Steve Jobs has up his sleeve are the cryptic taglines "Let's Rock" and "Playing Soon." —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Apart from such professionalism, another thing that Gopalaswami wears on his sleeve is his faith. —  rediff.com
  • On the side of the sleeve was another one of those perforated tabs to pull, which said, "Once upon a time". —  TreoCentral
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  1. Middle English sleve, from Old English slēf; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English sleeve, sleve, slefe (plural slefes, sleven), from Anglo-Saxon slēfe, slēf, slyfe, sly¯f = Middle Dutch sleve, a sleeve (cf. Middle Dutch sloove, veil, skin, the turning up of a thing, Dutch sloof, an apron; Middle High German slouf, a garment, also a handle, Middle Low German slū, Low German slu, sluwe = Middle High German sloufe, German schlaube, schlauf, a husk, shell); prob. literally ‘that into which the arm slips’ (cf. slip, a garment, slop, a garment, and slipper, a light shoe, from the same ult. source, and so named for the same reason), from Anglo-Saxon slūpan, slip: see slip. For the change of p to f, cf. shaft, as related to shape.
  2. from Middle English sleven; from sleeve, n.
 

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