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Definitions for fleeting
ˈfli tɪŋfleet·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentaryadjective
lasting for a markedly brief time
"a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
Wiktionary
fleetingadjective
passing quickly
Wikipedia
fleeting
Julie Fleeting MBE (born 18 December 1980), whose married name is Julie Stewart, is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward. She spent nine years at English club Arsenal and was the first Scot to play as a full-time professional in the WUSA playing for San Diego Spirit. She won the Scottish Women's League title with Ayr and seventeen major trophies with Arsenal. According to the Scottish Football Association, Fleeting has a record of 116 goals (a national record by some distance) and 121 caps for Scotland between her debut in 1996 and retirement in 2015, although those figures appear to include unofficial internationals. Fleeting also captained her country for eight years. According to UEFA, she has a record of 28 goals in 22 games in UEFA competitions for national teams, and 22 goals in 32 games in UEFA club competitions.She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. She has also represented Scotland in the sport of basketball.
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fleeting
Fleeting refers to something that happens quickly or lasts for a very short period of time, something that is brief or transitory. It is often used to describe intangible things like feelings, impressions, or moments.
Webster Dictionary
Fleeting
of Fleet
Fleetingadjective
passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
fleeting
To come up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially the act of changing the situation of a tackle when the blocks are drawn together; also, changing the position of the dead-eyes, when the shrouds are become too long, which is done by shortening the bend of the shroud and turning in the dead-eye again higher up; the use of fleeting is accordingly to regain the mechanical powers, when destroyed by the meeting of the blocks or dead-eyes.--Fleet ho! the order given at such times. (See TACKLE.)
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FLEETING
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fleeting is ranked #149395 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Fleeting surname appeared 110 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fleeting.
58.1% or 64 total occurrences were Black.
24.5% or 27 total occurrences were White.
10% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fleeting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fleeting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of fleeting in a Sentence
According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2:
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
World leaders have a fleeting opportunity to help or betray the future of humanity with their actions today on climate change, climate Impact Research in Germany and the images created from Climate Impact Research in Germany illustrate the enormous stakes behind the climate talks in Glasgow.
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
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- عابرArabic
- бързо преминаващ, преходенBulgarian
- prchavýCzech
- flüchtigGerman
- πρόσκαιρος, εφήμεροςGreek
- fugazSpanish
- katoavainen, haihtuva, ohikiitävä, hetkellinenFinnish
- fugace, éphémèreFrench
- fuadainScottish Gaelic
- בן חלוף, בת חלוףHebrew
- կարճատեւ, վաղանցիկ, թռուցիկArmenian
- sekejapIndonesian
- skammær, augnablik, hverfullIcelandic
- sfuggente, sfuggevole, fugaceItalian
- 儚いJapanese
- flyktigNorwegian
- flyktigNorwegian Nynorsk
- nikły, przelotnyPolish
- fugazPortuguese
- fugitiv, fugaciRomanian
- мимолётный, скоротечныйRussian
- flyktigSwedish
- விரைந்தோடும்Tamil
- швидкоплиннийUkrainian
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