English

Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-i�t|-i�t

Adjective
fleet

1. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

Noun
en-noun

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
2. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
3. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
4. A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
5. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Translations
trans-top|a group of vessels
Finnish: laivasto (1)
Greek: ���λο� m
Hungarian: flotta
trans-mid
Latin: classis f
Portuguese: frota f
Spanish: flota f
trans-bottom

Verb
en-verb

1. To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of

#: a ship that fleets the gulf

1. 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; -- Percy Shelley, Rosalind and Helen.

1. To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
2. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
3. To take the cream from; to skim.

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• 2007-11-04 22:28 - RJFJR - /* Verb */ SP: lighty -> lightly

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