Meaning of fleet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
2. A group of vessels or vehicles
3. A group of vessels or vehicles.
4. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
   dialectal
5. A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street
6. To move swiftly:bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.
7. A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
8. Any group of associated items
9. Any group of associated items.
10. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
11. A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream
12. A number of warships operating together under one command.
13. A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
14. A large, coordinated group of people
15. A large, coordinated group of people.
16. A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland
17. A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet
18. A number of vessels having a shared origin, purpose, or area of operation: the Japanese merchant fleet; the North Pacific fishing fleet.
19. A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
20. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc
21. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
22. A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England
23. A group of vehicles, such as taxicabs or airliners, owned or operated as a unit.
24. A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
25. 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
26. 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.
    British-Royal-Navy
27. Moving swiftly and nimbly. See Synonyms at fast1.
28. A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
29. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
30. Fleeting; evanescent.
31. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
32. To move or pass swiftly: The summer days fleeted by.
33. A surname.
34. To fade; vanish: beauty that is fleeting away.
35. Obsolete To flow.
    Obsolete
36. Obsolete To drift.
    Obsolete

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Examples

“He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.”

“It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November.”

“This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.”

“And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.”

“Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report.”

“a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town”

“Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.”

“Fire and fleet and candle-lighte”

“This is hard-core London, and just before Farringdon station you will be able to glimpse the vast steel pipe that carries what was the Fleet River and is now the Fleet sewer over your head. The Fleet looks safely contained now, although you never know. It surprises me that no terrorist has made common cause with the surly and embittered Fleet, which, in Peter Ackroyd's words became 'a river of death' as it sidled through the meanest streets of London en route to the Thames.”

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