Definition of "fleet" in English

noun

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.

2. Any group of associated items.

3. A large, coordinated group of people.

4. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.

5. (nautical, British Royal Navy) 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.

6. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.

noun

1. (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.

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

2. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To float.

2. (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

3. (ambitransitive) 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.

4. (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.

5. (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.

6. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.

7. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.

8. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.

9. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

10. To take the cream from; to skim.

adjective

1. (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.

2. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

noun

1. (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).

   • Fire and fleet and candle-lighte