fleet

  • 31fleet — fleet1 [ flit ] noun count ** 1. ) a group of vehicles, planes, boats, or trains, especially when they are owned by one organization or person: the company s fleet of vehicles Survivors were taken to hospital in a fleet of ambulances. 2. ) fleet… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 32fleet — {{11}}fleet (adj.) swift, 1520s, but probably older than the record; apparently from or cognate with O.N. fliotr swift, and from the root of FLEET (Cf. fleet) (v.)). Related: Fleetness. {{12}}fleet (n.) O.E. fleot ship, raft, floating vessel,… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 33fleet — I UK [fliːt] / US [flɪt] noun [countable] Word forms fleet : singular fleet plural fleets ** 1) a group of vehicles, planes, boats, or trains, especially when they are owned by one organization or person the company s fleet of vehicles Survivors… …

    English dictionary

  • 34Fleet — 51°30′39″N 0°6′16″O / 51.51083, 0.10444 …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 35fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 36fleet — I [[t]flit[/t]] n. 1) mil the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes 2) mil the largest organization of warships under the command of a single officer 3) all the naval ships of a nation; navy 4) a large group …

    From formal English to slang

  • 37fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… …

    Word origins

  • 38fleet — fleet1 [fli:t] n [: Old English; Origin: fleot ship , from fleotan; FLEETING] 1.) a group of ships, or all the ships in a navy ▪ the US seventh fleet 2.) a group of vehicles that are controlled by one company fleet of ▪ a fleet of taxis …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 39fleet — [[t]fli͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦♦ fleets 1) N COUNT: usu supp N A fleet is a group of ships organized to do something together, for example to fight battles or to catch fish. The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating. ...restaurants supplied… …

    English dictionary

  • 40fleet — I. /flit / (say fleet) noun 1. the largest organised unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes. 2. the largest organisation of warships under the command of a single officer. 3. a number of naval vessels, or vessels carrying… …