FLEET
\flˈiːt], \flˈiːt], \f_l_ˈiː_t]\
Definitions of FLEET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
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group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
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group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
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disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
By Princeton University
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a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
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group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
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group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To sail; to float.
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To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
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To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
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To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
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To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
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Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
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Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
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A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
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A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
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To take the cream from; to skim.
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To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew.
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To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - said of a cable or hawser.
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To draw apart the blocks of; - said of a tackle.
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To move or change in position; - said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.
By Oddity Software
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To sail; to float.
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To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
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To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
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To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
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To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
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Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
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Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
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To take the cream from; to skim.
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To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew.
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To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - said of a cable or hawser.
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To draw apart the blocks of; - said of a tackle.
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A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; - obsolete, except as a place name, - as Street in London.
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A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the (now filled up).
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To move or change in position; - said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Fleetly.
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Fleetness.
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A number of ships in company, esp. ships of war; a division of the navy, commanded by an admiral.
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To pass swiftly:-pr.p. fleeting; pa.p. fleeted.
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Swift; nimble; fleeting or transient.
By Daniel Lyons
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Fleetly.
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Fleetness.
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To fly or pass swiftly.
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Moving, or capable of moving, swiftly; rapid; nimble; swift.
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A number of vessels in company, as ships of war.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
