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US
/ˈfɫit/
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[ UK /flˈiːt/ ]
[ UK /flˈiːt/ ]
NOUN
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
VERB
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move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
The hummingbird flitted among the branches -
disappear gradually
The pain eventually passed off
ADJECTIVE
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moving very fast
fleet of foot
the fleet scurrying of squirrels
swift flight of an arrow
a swift runner
a swift current
How To Use fleet In A Sentence
- In the near rocks zone, a battle airship firmly adsorb to a great meteorolite, an eye warrior watch with scout far places of Flolamp fleets, soundless, Boss, Flolamp have leaved for Life Star. Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago. Times, Sunday Times
- A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
- Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
- They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet, now 190 miles north of Oahu.
- Experts probed the origin of the sulphurous smell which appeared at the beginning of February after calls from worried Benfleet and Canvey residents who were left spluttering.
- Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
- Possession of these books allowed British ships or personnel placed ashore to read the signals being relayed by the semaphore stations, which frequently included operational tasking to French fleet units.
- Owing to these qualities they are utilised for prolonged and searching reconnoitring duties such as strategical reconnaissances as distinct from the hurried and tactical reconnaissances carried out by fleeter machines. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War