fleet

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
    — 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.
  2. Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). Yorkshire,alt-of,obsolete
    — Fire and fleet and candle-lighte
  3. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. dialectal
    — a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town
  4. Any group of associated items.
    — This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.
  5. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
  6. A large, coordinated group of people.
    — 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.
  7. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
    — 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.
  8. 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
  9. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
动词 v.
  1. To float. intransitive,obsolete
    — Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […]
  2. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of. ambitransitive
    — Long were to tell the troublous stormes, that tosse The private state, and make the life unsweet Who swelling sayles in Caspian sea doth crosse, And in frayle wood on Adrian gulf doth fleet
  3. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy. ambitransitive
    — They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
  4. To flee, to escape, to speed away. intransitive
    — Gratiano:O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam, Infused itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
  5. To evanesce, disappear, die out. intransitive
    — Portia:How all other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love, be moderate; allay thy ecstasy; In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess! I feel too much thy blessing; make it less, For fear I surfeit!
  6. To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
    — To fleet tackle when pennant block is used, the keeper, with a strap and heaver, racks both parts of hawser together near pennant block, and the tackle is then overhauled and hooked by the men assigned to those duties.
  7. To move or change in position. intransitive
    — We got the long "stick" [...] down and "fleeted" aft, where it was secured.
  8. To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long. obsolete
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place. literary
    — In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.
  2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. uncommon
    — fleet Soil, and that 'tis mixed with a great quantity of Earth, Marle, Mud or Clay, &c.

词形变化

fleets plural fleete alternative,obsolete fleets plural fleets present,singular,third-person fleeting participle,present fleeted participle,past fleeted past fleeter comparative more fleet comparative fleetest superlative most fleet superlative fleets plural

词汇关系

近义词
fleet
上位词
group
下位词
armada convoy flotilla formation motorcade squadron
衍生词
admiral of the fleet airfleet battle fleet carfleet dark fleet fleet admiral fleet captain fleet carrier fleetful fleet in being fleet landing fleet leader fleetmate fleetname fleet race fleet racing fleetside fleet up fleetwide flog someone round the fleet ghost fleet interfleet merchant fleet mosquito fleet nonfleet shadow fleet starfleet subfleet Cargo Fleet Fleet Fleet Street Northfleet fleetfoot fleetfooted fleetly fleetness fleet of foot
相关词
weaponry List of collective nouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by collective term
部分词
aircraft automobile spacecraft vehicle vessel watercraft

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
词源 2
From Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą.
Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).
词源 3
From Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.
词源 4
See flet.
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