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Fleet   /flit/   Listen
Fleet

noun
1.
Group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership.
2.
Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership.
3.
A group of steamships operating together under the same ownership.
4.
A group of warships organized as a tactical unit.
adjective
(compar. fleeter; superl. fleetest)
1.
Moving very fast.  Synonym: swift.  "The fleet scurrying of squirrels" , "A swift current" , "Swift flight of an arrow" , "A swift runner"
verb
(past & past part. fleeted; pres. part. fleeting)
1.
Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.  Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter.
2.
Disappear gradually.  Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off.



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"Fleet" Quotes from Famous Books



... a low ledge of rocks leading back to the narrow beach already mentioned, and the ledge came out to within a few feet of where the outmost boat on that side would pass it. It was the only chance and a poor one, but already the first rank of my fleet was trembling on the brink, and without stopping to weigh matters I bounded off my own canoe on to the raft alongside, which rocked with my weight like a tea-tray. From that I leapt, with such hearty good-will ...
— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold
... wife to imperative demands, only thought of a night's nursing of some specially poor patient. She rose without a word, and in two minutes they were driving, as fast as a fleet horse could take ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... with regard to the pre-dynastic period, there can be no question that by the end of the Third Dynasty even Egypt had developed a marine not inadequate to the requirements of the Cretan passage. We know that Sneferu, the last King of the Third Dynasty, sent a fleet of forty ships to the Syrian coast for cedar-wood, and that in his reign a vessel was built of the very respectable length of 170 feet. Coming farther down, we know also that Sahura of the Fifth Dynasty sent a fleet down the Red Sea as far as Punt or Somaliland. ...
— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie
... V.C., gave a lecture on this illusion before the members of the Magic Circle at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, London, at which all the press correspondents of the leading news-papers were present. He produced a snapshot of a man purporting to be showing the Rope Trick in Poona, or Kirkee, one of its suburbs. Captain Holmes explained that though the boy did climb up what he ...
— Indian Conjuring • L. H. Branson
... is very frequent in Icelandic. Thus by the side of skip-stjōrn (ship-steering) we find skips-brot (ship's breaking, shipwreck), skipa-hęrr (army of ships, fleet). Genitival composition often expresses possession, ...
— An Icelandic Primer - With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary • Henry Sweet


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