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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, age group, agile, alert, animated, argosy, armada, ball the jack, band, barrel, battalion, beguile, bevy, body, boom, bottoms, bowl along, breakneck, breeze, breeze along, brief, brigade, brisk, brush, bunch, cabal, cast, clip, clique, coast guard, cohort, cometary, company, complement, contingent, convoy, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, cut along, dally, dashing, detachment, detail, disappear, division, double-quick, eagle-winged, escadrille, evanesce, evaporate, expeditious, express, faction, fade, fast, featly, flashing, flickering, flit, flotilla, fly, fly low, flying, foot, fritter, galloping, gang, go fast, graceful, group, grouping, groupment, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, highball, hustling, idle, in-group, junta, light, light of heel, light-footed, line, lively, make good, make knots, marine, melt, melt like snow, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mercurial, meteoric, mob, mosquito fleet, movement, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, nip, nit, out-group, outfit, outstrip the wind, pack, party, pass, pass away, peart, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, potter, pour it on, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, regiment, rip, running, sail, salon, scorch, set, shipping, ships, short, short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, sink, sizzle, skim, snappy, spanking, speed, speedy, spirited, sprightly, spry, squad, squadron, squander, stable, storm along, string, sure-footed, sweep, swift, task force, task group, tatter, team, tear, tear along, thunder along, tonnage, tribe, troop, troupe, vanish, vivacious, waste, whaling fleet, whisk, whiz, wile, wing, winged, zing, zip, zoom |
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Dictionary Results for fleet: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
fleet
adj 1: moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying
of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an
arrow"; "a swift runner" [syn: fleet, swift]
n 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
v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The
hummingbird flitted among the branches" [syn: flit,
flutter, fleet, dart]
2: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn:
evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Fleet \Fleet\, v. t.
1. To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship
that fleets the gulf. --Spenser.
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2. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth
and joy.
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Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the
time carelessly. --Shak.
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3. (Naut.)
(a) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
--Totten.
(b) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or
windlass, as a rope or chain.
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4. (Naut.) To move or change in position; used only in
special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew.
We got the long "stick" . . . down and "fleeted"
aft, where it was secured. --F. T.
Bullen.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
fleet \fleet\ (fl[=e]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. fleeted; p. pr. &
vb. n. fleeting.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS.
fle['o]tan to swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS.
fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to
float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr.
plei^n to sail, swim, float, Skr. plu to swim, sail.
[root]84. Cf. Fleet, n. & a., Float, Pluvial, Flow.]
1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]
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And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.
--Spenser.
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2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
as a light substance.
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All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. --Milton.
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3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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4. (Naut.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons;
as, the crew fleeted aft.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Fleet \Fleet\, a. [Compar. Fleeter; superl. Fleetest.] [Cf.
Icel. flj[=o]tr quick. See Fleet, v. i.]
1. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in
going from place to place; nimble.
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In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.
--Milton.
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2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
[Prov. Eng.] --Mortimer.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Fleet \Fleet\, v. t. [AS. fl[=e]t cream, fr. fle['o]tan to
float. See Fleet, v. i.]
To take the cream from; to skim. [Prov. Eng.] --Johnson.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Fleet \Fleet\, n. [OE. flete, fleote, AS. fle['o]t ship, fr.
fle['o]tan to float, swim. See Fleet, v. i. and cf.
Float.]
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also,
the collective naval force of a country, etc.
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Fleet captain, the senior aid of the admiral of a fleet,
when a captain. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Fleet \Fleet\, n. [AS. fle['o]t a place where vessels float,
bay, river; akin to D. vliet rill, brook, G. fliess. See
Fleet, v. i.]
1. 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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Together wove we nets to entrap the fish
In floods and sedgy fleets. --Matthewes.
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2. A former prison in London, which originally stood near a
stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
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Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the
vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite
persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour,
without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.
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8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
FLEET, punishment, Eng. law, Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where
the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or
ditch which was formerly there, on the side of which it stood.
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Common Misspellings > |
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