| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a fleeting manner; swiftly.[Websters]
2. In a concerned manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a transient or short-lived manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an ephemeral or elusive manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a rapid, quick or swift manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a short or brief manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an evanescent or volatile manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective fleeting.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Fleeting) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb fleet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (fleetly) | 1. In a swift manner.[Wordnet]. 2. In a fleet manner; rapidly.[Websters]. 3. In a brisk, crisp or buoyant manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a smart, sharp, slick or vivacious manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an alert, alive or mercurial manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a rapid, quick, expeditious, fast or agile manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a prompt or immediate manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an active or warm manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a light, lightsome or slight manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective fleet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fleet) | 1. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.[Wordnet]. 2. Disappear gradually.[Wordnet]. 3. To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.[Websters]. 4. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.[Websters]. 5. To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.[Websters]. 6. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.[Websters]. 7. To take the cream from; to skim.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: fleeting, fleeted, fleets, fleeter, fleeters, fleetingly and fleetedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLEETINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fleet
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | 1: A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit. (references) | 2: A group of aircraft under one control, such as an airline. (references) | 3: A generic term for collection of spacecraft with a high-level complementary goal. (references) |
| Antiquities | Fleet. See Classis; Navis. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | To see a large fleet moving rapidly in your dreams, denotes a hasty change in the business world. Where dullness oppressed, brisk workings of commercial wheels will go forward and some rumors of foreign wars will be heard. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Energy | The vehicles in a transit system. Usually, "fleet" refers to highway vehicles and "rolling stock" to rail vehicles. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | Any number of nets joined end to end and operated as a complete outfit. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Law | FLEET, punishment, Eng. law, Saxon fleot. A place of running water, where the tide or float comes up. A prison in London, so called from a river or ditch which was formerly there, on the side of which it stood. (references) | ||
| Military | (DOD) 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. (references) | ||
| Mining | The movement of a rope sidewise when winding on a drum. See also: fleet angle. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: fleet
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy) | Admiral of the Fleet is a rank of the British Royal Navy and many other navies, the equivalent of Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy. There have been far more officers of this rank in the United Kingdom than in the United States. (references) | ||
| Admiral of the Fleet (Russia) | Fleet Admiral (Адмирал флoта, Admiral flota), sometimes also referred to as Admiral of the Fleet, is presently the highest naval rank of the Russian Federation. It's a direct counterpart of corresponding Soviet naval rank, Admiral of the Fleet. (references) | ||
| Admiral of the Fleet (USSR) | The rank of Admiral of the Fleet (Russian: Admiral Flota, Адмирал флота ) was the second-highest naval rank of the Soviet Union, one grade lower than Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union. (references) | ||
| Atlantic Fleet | A number of countries currently have or previously had an Atlantic Fleet in their navies. (references) | ||
| Baltic Fleet | The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, in the Soviet period - The Red Banner Baltic Fleet - Краснознамённый Балтийский флот) is located at the Baltic Sea and headquartered in Kaliningrad, the other major base is at Kronstadt, located in the Gulf of Finland. The Fleet was part of the former Soviet Navy and is now part of Russian Navy. (references) | ||
| Baron Thomson of Fleet | Baron Thomson of Fleet is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964. (references) | ||
| Battle fleet | A fleet of warships prepared for battle. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Battle Fleet | The United States Battle Fleet or Battle Force was part of the organization of the United States Navy from 1922 to 1941. (references) | ||
| Black Sea Fleet | Black Sea Fleet (Russian: Черноморский флот) is a large sub-unit of the Russian (and formerly Soviet) Navy, operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the early 18th century. It is based in various harbours of Russia's Black Sea and Sea of Azov coast. The Fleet's main base is situated in the Ukrainian port city of Sevastopol. The continuing use of this base, more than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been an occasional irritant in the relations between Russia and Ukraine. (references) | ||
| British Eastern Fleet | The British Eastern Fleet (also known as the East Indies Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy during World War II. It operated in the Indian Ocean and was based in Trincomalee in Ceylon. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fleet
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Active vehicles in fleet | Energy | The vehicles in the year end fleet that are available to operate in revenue service, including vehicles temporarily out of service for routine maintenance and minor repairs. (references) | |
| Advanced fleet anchorage | Military | A secure anchorage for a large number of naval vessels, mobile support units, and auxiliaries located in or near a theater of operations. See also emergency anchorage. (references) | |
| BREAST FLEET | Slang in 1811 | BREAST FLEET. He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their custom of beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Civil reserve air fleet | Military | (DOD) A program in which the Department of Defense contracts for the services of specific aircraft, owned by a US entity or citizen, during national emergencies and defense-oriented situations when expanded civil augmentation of military airlift activity is required. These aircraft are allocated, in accordance with Department of Defense requirements, to segments, according to their capabilities, such as international long range and short range cargo and passenger sections, national (domestic and Alaskan sections) and aeromedical evacuation and other segments as may be mutually agreed upon by the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation. Also called CRAF. See also reserve. (references) | |
| Domestic fleet | Business | All reportable agency-owned motor vehicles operated in any State, Commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, and the District of Columbia. This definition is used in conjunction with the Federal Fleet Report. (references) | |
| Emergency fleet operating base | Military | A base providing logistic support for fleet units operating in an area for limited periods of time. See also base. (references) | |
| Fleet aircraft | Business | Fleet aircraft refers to any of the following: 1) Owned aircraft; 2) Aircraft under lease/purchase agreement where the intent is to transfer title to the federal government; 3) An aircraft leased in lieu of ownership for an agreed period of 180 or more days; and 4) Any aircraft under exclusive use and operational control of a federal entity for 180 or more days-excludes aircraft operating under full service contracts. (references) | |
| Fleet angle | Energy | The angle between the position of a rope or cable at the extreme end wrap on a drum and a line drawn perpendicular to the axis of the drum. The fleet angle is used to indicate how effective or efficient the rope or cable is for raising a load. (references) | |
| Fleet angle | Mining | A. The included angle between the rope, in its position of greatest travel across the drum, and a line drawn perpendicular to the drum shaft, passing through the center of the head sheave or head-sheave groove. b. Of hoisting gear in mine shaft headworks, the angle between the sheave and extreme paying-off position on the winding drum; in good practice the angle is below 3 degrees c. As used by diamond drillers and miners, the angle between the two ends of a hoist drum as a base and the sheave wheel in a drill tripod orderrick or the headframe pulley as the apex. (references) | |
| Fleet ballistic missile submarine | Military | (DOD) A nuclear-powered submarine designed to deliver ballistic missile attacks against assigned targets from either a submerged or surfaced condition. Designated as SSBN. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: fleet
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FLEET | English | Freight and logistics efforts for European traffic | Computing | |
| FLEET REGISTER | English | Fleet registers | European Union | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
