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
- The damage to the fleet was terrific.
- The fleet was scattered by the storm.
- The fleet was scuttled on the 27 November.
- The beauty of a moment is that it's fleeting.
- The Indonesian navy is modernizing the fleet.
- The modernization of the fleet had precedence.
- It's part of the history of the fleet, not the harbor.
- Survivors of the fleet swear to the truth of the story.
- The adolescent Percy was imprisoned in the Fleet Prison.
- The Chinese lost nine of the eleven ships of the Fujian Fleet.
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