fleet
$ \mathrm{fleet}^1 |flēt|
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noun
a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership:
艦隊 (!squadronより大きい)
e.g. the small port supports a fishing fleet.
(the fleet) a country's navy:
〖the ～〗 (海軍の)全艦隊, 海軍 (!通例修飾語句を伴う)
e.g. the US fleet.
a number of vehicles or aircraft operating together or under the same ownership:
〖しばしばa ～〗 (一会社所属の)(全)車両, 航空機
e.g. a fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.
ORIGIN
Old English flēot‘ship, shipping’, from flēotan‘float, swim’ (see fleet4).
$ \mathrm{fleet}^2 |flēt|
adjective chiefly literary
fast and nimble in movement:
｟文｠ 速い(fast)
e.g. a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot.
DERIVATIVES
fleetly adverb
fleetness noun
ORIGIN
early 16th century: probably from Old Norse fljótr, of Germanic origin and related to fleet4.
$ \mathrm{fleet}^3 |flēt|
noun British
a marshland creek, channel, or ditch.
ORIGIN
Old English flēot, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliet, also to fleet4.
$ \mathrm{fleet}^4 |flēt|
verb no object literary
move or pass quickly:
e.g. a variety of expressions fleeted across his face
e.g. time may fleet and youth may fade.
with object pass (time) rapidly.
fade away; be transitory:
e.g. the cares of boyhood fleet away.
ORIGIN
Old English flēotan‘float, swim’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float.
$ \mathrm{fleet}^5 |flēt| British dialect
adjective
(of water) shallow.
adverb
at or to a small depth.
ORIGIN
early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet4.