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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



... you cannot on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet, Rocking on the highest billows, Laughing at the storms you meet, You can stand among the sailors Anchored yet within the bay; You can lend a hand to help them As they launch their ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... women unlock the jewel-caskets which are their souls; happy maidens are sisterly with him; strong men grapple him to their hearts and call him friend. He that was vagabond has now innumerable homes, and of the faces that fleet by him out of doors there are always some which ...
— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith
... of a tiny country does not begrudge the heir to a World-Power his fleet, his army, nor his treasures; but he refuses to yield one treasure to him except at the price of his heart's blood—and that treasure is the hand of Princess Wilhelmine, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... the shore in all directions was dotted with them, as they ran, leaped and barked in the snow. The decks were washed down with hose, and the work of unloading began. First the sledges came down from the bridge deck, where they had been built during the upward voyage, a fine fleet of twenty-three. ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary
... gathered form and substance. The pinnacles of the Seraglio shot up from the midst of cypress groves; fantastic kiosks lined the shore; the minarets of St. Sophia and Sultan Achmed rose more clearly against the sky; and a fleet of steamers and men-of-war, gay with flags, marked the entrance of the Golden Horn. We passed the little bay where St. Chrysostom was buried, the point of Chalcedon, and now, looking up the renowned Bosphorus, saw the Maiden's Tower, opposite Scutari. An enormous ...
— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor


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