[*** \mathrm{fleet}^1] |flēt|

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a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership:

艦隊 (!squadronより大きい)

e.g. the small port supports a fishing fleet.

(the fleet) a country's navy:

〖the ～〗 (海軍の)全艦隊, 海軍 (!通例修飾語句を伴う)

e.g. the US fleet.

a number of vehicles or aircraft operating together or under the same ownership:

〖しばしばa ～〗 (一会社所属の)(全)車両, 航空機

e.g. a fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.

Old English flēot‘ship, shipping’, from flēotan‘float, swim’ (see fleet4).

[*** \mathrm{fleet}^2] |flēt|

adjective chiefly literary

fast and nimble in movement:

｟文｠ 速い(fast)

e.g. a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot.

fleetly adverb

fleetness noun

early 16th century: probably from Old Norse fljótr, of Germanic origin and related to fleet4.

[*** \mathrm{fleet}^3] |flēt|

noun British

a marshland creek, channel, or ditch.

Old English flēot, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliet, also to fleet4.

[*** \mathrm{fleet}^4] |flēt|

verb no object literary

move or pass quickly:

e.g. a variety of expressions fleeted across his face

e.g. time may fleet and youth may fade.

with object pass (time) rapidly.

fade away; be transitory:

e.g. the cares of boyhood fleet away.

Old English flēotan‘float, swim’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float.

[*** \mathrm{fleet}^5] |flēt| British dialect

(of water) shallow.

at or to a small depth.

early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet4.