Princeton's WordNet

1. fleet(noun)

   group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership

2. fleet(noun)

   group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership

3. fleet(noun)

   a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership

4. fleet(adj)

   a group of warships organized as a tactical unit

5. fleet, swift(verb)

   moving very fast

   "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"

6. flit, flutter, fleet, dart(verb)

   move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

   "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"

7. evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass(verb)

   disappear gradually

   "The pain eventually passed off"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. fleet(noun)flit

   a group of ships

   the Spanish fleet

2. fleetflit

   a group of vehicles that belong to one company

   a fleet of delivery trucks

Wiktionary

1. Fleet(ProperNoun)

   The stream that ran where Fleet Street now runs.

2. Fleet(ProperNoun)

   A former prison in London, which originally stood near the stream.

Origin: From fleten, from fleotan

Webster Dictionary

1. Fleet

   to sail; to float

2. Fleet

   to fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance

3. Fleet

   to slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser

4. Fleet(verb)

   to pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf

5. Fleet(verb)

   to hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy

6. Fleet(verb)

   to draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle

7. Fleet(verb)

   to cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain

8. Fleet(verb)

   swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble

9. Fleet(verb)

   light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil

10. Fleet(verb)

    a number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc

11. Fleet(verb)

    a flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London

12. Fleet(verb)

    a former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up)

13. Fleet(verb)

    to take the cream from; to skim

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. fleet

   An organization of ships, aircraft, Marine forces, and shore-based fleet activities all under the command of a commander or commander in chief who may exercise operational as well as administrative control. See also major fleet; numbered fleet.

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