Fleet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”

3. isim A large, coordinated group of people.
4. isim 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.”

5. isim 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. isim The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
7. isim An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.

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

8. isim A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
9. fiil To float.

   “Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […]”

10. fiil To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

    “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”

11. fiil To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.

    “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.”

12. fiil To flee, to escape, to speed away.

    “It began to be chill; the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.”

13. fiil To evanesce, disappear, die out.

    “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!”

14. fiil 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.”

15. fiil To move or change in position.

    “We got the long "stick" [...] down and "fleeted" aft, where it was secured.”

16. fiil To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
17. fiil To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
18. fiil To take the cream from; to skim.
19. sıfat Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.

    “In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.”

20. sıfat Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

    “fleet Soil, and that 'tis mixed with a great quantity of Earth, Marle, Mud or Clay, &c.”

21. isim Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).

    “Fire and fleet and candle-lighte”

22. özel isim A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
23. özel isim A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
24. özel isim A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
25. özel isim A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
26. özel isim A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
27. özel isim A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
28. özel isim A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
29. özel isim A surname.