short sleeve vs sleeve

short sleeve and sleeve both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
short sleeve	Yes	No	No	No
sleeve	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sleeve is a hypernym of short sleeve; that is, sleeve is a word with a broader meaning than short sleeve:

short sleeve: a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow
sleeve: the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm

Other hypernyms of short sleeve include arm.

short sleeve (noun)	sleeve (noun)
a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow	the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
	small case into which an object fits