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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fleeting
    adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance";
           "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of
           things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn:
           fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]

2. 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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fleeting \Fleet"ing\, a.
   Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as,
   the fleeting hours or moments.

   Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
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Thesaurus Results for Fleeting:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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