fleet

Meaning of fleet

noun
  1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
  2. Any group of associated items.
  3. A large, coordinated group of people.
  4. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  5. (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.
noun
  1. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
  2. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
verb
  1. To float.
  2. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
    a ship that fleets the gulf
  3. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
  4. To flee, to escape, to speed away.
  5. To evanesce, disappear, die out.
  6. To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
  7. (of people) To move or change in position.
  8. To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
  9. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  10. To take the cream from; to skim.
adjective
  1. Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
  2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
noun
  1. Floor; bottom; lower surface.
  2. A house; home.

Information about fleet

  • The plural form of fleet is: fleets.
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Hyphenation of fleet

fleet

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • fleet is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fleet synonyms

Meaning swift:

swift

Meaning flit:

flit, flutter, dart

Meaning evanesce:

evanesce, fade, pass

Meaning :

fast, nimble

Translation of fleet

Anagrams of fleet

lefte

Words that rhyme with fleet

Leet, leet, Benfleet, Fleet, superfleet, gleet, spleet, sleet

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