View Full Document. Ice Pellets Ice pellets (also called sleet) are refrozen snowflakes. They occur when a layer of air aloft is warm enough (> 0 ï° C) to melt snowflakes into raindrops but the air near the ground is cold enough to freeze the drops.
acarid - very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks. 1  mite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. 2  Acaridae, family Acaridae - mites.
So undoubtedly, an ACT is a decision passed into law, where a CODE is a collection of already existing laws. In the legal context, âActâ can be a statute or decision by legislation after a bill has been passed. âCodeâ is a complete statement of the law in a given area. I think that âCodeâ may have a more liberal meaning in UK law - a collection of rules defined as a code of practice set by a company or governing body. It is still a collection of ârules' but may not be actual laws.