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  • verb Present participle of sleeve.

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Examples

  • The medium weight Universal sleeving, which is ideally suited to the food industry, is supplied in six colour coded sizes and can handle diameters from 6mm to 400mm.

    Packaging and Converting ESSENTIALS 2009

  • He then reproduced those bands on the surface of his fluorescent tubes by sliding short lengths of sleeving, in blues and grays and even sunset-pinks and golds, along their lengths.

    Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, With the Cloud' at the Corcoran 2010

  • I didn't realize that - apart from being just a plot contrivance - he took sleeving to the Nth degree (I love "dipping," for example; Morgan does for being resleeved what Sean Williams 'does for teleportation in The Resurrected Man, in terms of looking into every single ramification), but I really didn't expect all the stuff with the Martians, etc ...

    The New Lou Review Lou Anders 2006

  • I didn't realize that - apart from being just a plot contrivance - he took sleeving to the Nth degree (I love "dipping," for example; Morgan does for being resleeved what Sean Williams 'does for teleportation in The Resurrected Man, in terms of looking into every single ramification), but I really didn't expect all the stuff with the Martians, etc ...

    Archive 2006-08-01 Lou Anders 2006

  • Does he wear long tights, obvisouly...but never a jersey with legitimate sleeving.

    Slick and Attired: Wearing Whatever You Want BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • These events also allow Morgan to explore some more of the consequences of his body-swapping, re-sleeving universe, with subtle nods towards its implications for consciousness, sentience and what it precisely means to be human a slight and barely perceptible nudge compared to Bakker's Neuropath, which yelled it into the reader's face loudly until we got it.

    Woken Furies by Richard Morgan Adam Whitehead 2008

  • These events also allow Morgan to explore some more of the consequences of his body-swapping, re-sleeving universe, with subtle nods towards its implications for consciousness, sentience and what it precisely means to be human a slight and barely perceptible nudge compared to Bakker's Neuropath, which yelled it into the reader's face loudly until we got it.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • Severe pits, deep dents, and bulges indicate that the gun may require sleeving, the extremely expensive job of cutting off the old barrels ahead of the chambers and fitting new ones.

    How To Restore an Old Side-by-Side 2005

  • Also, "double" and "multi-sleeving", downloading memories into two or more bodies simultaneously, is illegal in this dark future.

    REVIEW: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan 2004

  • In five minutes they had got together a deck and a pile of chips and were shirt-sleeving it around a game of pinochle.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

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