fleet

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

fleetsfleete

1.
A group of vessels or vehicles.
2.
Any group of associated items.
3.
A large, coordinated group of people.
4.
(nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
5.
(British Royal Navy)(nautical, 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.
6.
The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
7.
(dialectal)(dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.
8.
(nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
9.
(Yorkshire, alt of, obsolete)Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

fleets

V_ing/Gerund

fleeting

V_ed/pp

fleeted

1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To float.
2.
(ambitransitive)To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
3.
(ambitransitive)To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet.
4.
(intransitive)To flee, to escape, to speed away.
5.
(intransitive)To evanesce, disappear, die out.
6.
(nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
7.
(intransitive)(nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
8.
(obsolete)(nautical, obsolete) 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.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

fleetermore fleet

Superlative

fleetestmost fleet

1.
(literary)Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
Đồng nghĩa: nimble, fast
2.
(uncommon)Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

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Đồng nghĩa

nimble fast

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English flete, flet (fleet), from Old English flēot (ship), likely related to *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (to float).