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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



... Downs the fleet was moored, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-eyed Susan came on board: "Oh! where shall I my true love find? Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true, If my sweet William sails ...
— Old Ballads • Various
... who, with his boatload of six-and-twenty desperadoes, ran boldly into the midst of the pearl fleet off the coast of South America, attacked the vice admiral under the very guns of two men-of-war, captured his ship, though she was armed with eight guns and manned with threescore men, and would have got her safely away, only that having to put on sail, their mainmast went by the board, ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... However, this camp life was not to last. Admiral Farragut wished to run his fleet past the batteries of Port Hudson so that we might intercept the Red River traffic and cooperate with General Grant at Vicksburg. Therefore he asked General Banks to make a demonstration behind the fortress. This movement was intended to divert the attention of the ...
— The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion • George P. Bissell
... being with them did not exceed ten weeks. Besides, it is now just twenty-seven years ago. I boarded the Equator while she was among the islands cruising for copra, and in due time we reached Apemama and dropped anchor in the lagoon near the king's boat fleet. Going on shore we found the party hale and much pleased with the ship's arrival. In the evening the king, a fat and clever native, paid a visit and entertained us by telling about his ancestors. On the mother's side they came from a shark, ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... government decided upon war on the side of the Allies. Millions of trained fighting men, fresh from the rigors of the recent Turkish war, were ready to take the field at almost a moment's notice. The reserves had already been ordered to the colors. The Italian fleet was ...
— The Boy Allies in Great Peril • Clair W. Hayes


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