fleet
IPA: fɫˈit
noun
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- Any group of associated items.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
- A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
- A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
- A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
- A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- A surname.
- (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). [(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.]
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
- (transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
- (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
adjective
- (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
- (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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Examples of "fleet" in Sentences
- When they're back on their training, the fleet is attacked by 8 Cylon Raiders.
- It looks to me that they do best when the fleet is actually running from the Cylons, with the threat of immanent discovery hanging over them.
- The remnants of humanity have taken refuge aboard spaceships, and this ragtag fleet is led on a quest through space by William Adama, commander of the Galactica.
- 'To the castles about Deal, where _our_ fleet' (_our fleet_, the saucy son of a tailor!) 'lay and anchored; great was the shoot of guns from the castles, and ships, and our answers.'
- The flagship of this fleet is the church and ex-convent in Ocotlan itself, a dazzling and exquisitely tasteful complex which hosts a gallery, a restaurant, and spaces for meetings, performances and classes.
- In 1726 we find him captam of Ae Kdlau, of ieventjr guns, one of the fleet fent m thlit year, vnder iir Charles Wager, to the Bahic, atad appointed to command, with the rank of conunodofe, the third divifion of the fleet*
- If well executed _it would cause the evacuation of all these formidable fortifications_ upon which the rebels ground their hopes for success; and in the event of our fleet attacking Mobile, the presence of our troops in the northern part of Alabama _would be material aid to the fleet_.
- "To get at them was impossible before they anchored under such batteries as would have crippled our fleet; and, had such an event happened, _in the present state of the enemy's fleet_, Tuscany, Naples, Rome, Sicily, &c., would have fallen as fast as their ships could have sailed along the coast.
- The great herring fleet outside the harbor was as motionless as "a painted _fleet_ upon a painted ocean" -- the men were sleeping or smoking upon the piers -- not a foot fell upon the flagged streets, and the only murmur of sound was round the public fountains, where a few women were perched on the bowl's edge, knitting and gossiping.
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