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单词 fleets
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fleet1 /flēt/

noun
  1. A number of ships, aircraft, motor cars, etc owned by the same company or otherwise associated
  2. A navy
  3. A division of a navy under an admiral
ORIGIN: OE flēot a ship, from flēotan to float; connected with Du vloot and Ger Flotte

Fleet Air Arm noun

The airborne forces of the Royal Navy

fleet3 /flēt/

intransitive verb
  1. To flit or pass swiftly (literary)
  2. To float (obsolete)
  3. To flow (Spenser)
transitive verb (Shakespeare)

To cause to pass quickly

adjective (dialect)

Shallow

ORIGIN: OE flēotan to float

fleetˈing adjective

  1. Passing quickly
  2. Transient
  3. Temporary

fleetˈingly adverb

fleet4 /flēt/

noun (dialect)

A shallow creek, bay, brook or drain, as in Northfleet, Fleet-ditch, etc

ORIGIN: OE flēot an inlet

Fleet Prison or the Fleet noun (historical)

A London jail near the Fleet river, in use until 1842, notorious as a place of confinement for debtors, and in which clandestine marriages were solemnized until 1754 by Fleet parsons, broken-down clergymen imprisoned for debt

Fleet Street noun

Journalism or its ways and traditions, from the street in London in which many newspaper offices were formerly situated

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