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ALL meanings of fleet

fleet
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  • noun fleet ships 1
  • noun fleet cars, trucks 1
  • adjective fleet swift 1
  • noun fleet Move or pass quickly. 1
  • noun fleet an arm of the sea; inlet. 1
  • noun fleet a creek; stream; watercourse. 1
  • noun fleet the Fleet, a former prison in London, long used for debtors. 1
  • adjective fleet swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse. 1
  • verb without object fleet to move swiftly; fly. 1
  • verb without object fleet Nautical. to change position; shift. 1
  • verb without object fleet Archaic. to glide along like a stream. to fade; vanish. 1
  • verb without object fleet Obsolete. to float; drift; swim. 1
  • verb with object fleet to cause (time) to pass lightly or swiftly. 1
  • verb with object fleet Nautical. to move or change the position of. to separate the blocks of (a tackle). to lay (a rope) along a deck. 1
  • countable noun fleet A fleet is a group of ships organized to do something together, for example to fight battles or to catch fish. 0
  • countable noun fleet A fleet of vehicles is a group of them, especially when they all belong to a particular organization or business, or when they are all going somewhere together. 0
  • noun fleet a number of warships organized as a tactical unit 0
  • noun fleet all the warships of a nation 0
  • noun fleet a number of aircraft, ships, buses, etc, operating together or under the same ownership 0
  • adjective fleet rapid in movement; swift 0
  • adjective fleet fleeting; transient 0
  • verb fleet to move rapidly 0
  • verb fleet to fade away smoothly; glide 0
  • verb fleet to change the position of (a hawser) 0
  • verb fleet to pass (a messenger or lead) to a hawser from a winch for hauling in 0
  • verb fleet to spread apart (the blocks of a tackle) 0
  • verb fleet to float or swim 0
  • verb fleet to cause (time) to pass rapidly 0
  • noun fleet a small coastal inlet; creek 0
  • noun fleet a stream that formerly ran into the Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street and is now a covered sewer 0
  • noun fleet (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors 0
  • noun fleet a number of warships under one command, usually in a definite area of operation 0
  • noun fleet the entire naval force of a country; navy 0
  • noun fleet any group of ships, trucks, buses, airplanes, etc. acting together or under one control 0
  • intransitive verb fleet to float; swim 0
  • intransitive verb fleet to move swiftly; flit; fly 0
  • intransitive verb fleet to pass away swiftly; disappear 0
  • verb transitive fleet to pass away (time) 0
  • verb transitive fleet to change the position of (a rope, pulley block, etc.) 0
  • adjective fleet swift; rapid 0
  • adjective fleet evanescent 0
  • noun fleet a small inlet; creek 0
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