fleet

Etymology 1
From, , from , likely related to , from.

Noun

 * 1) A group of vessels or vehicles.
 * 2) Any group of associated items.
 * 3) A large, coordinated group of people.
 * 4)  A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
 * 5)  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.
 * 1)  A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أُسْطُول
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: ontzidi, flota
 * Belarusian: флот, флёт, флёта, флаты́лія, фляты́лія, парк
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tartar: flot
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: floto
 * Estonian: laevastik
 * Finnish: ; ajokalusto,  ; liikkuva kalusto
 * French:
 * Galician: frota
 * Georgian: ფლოტი, ფლოტილია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: floti
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cabhlach, loingeas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , フリート
 * Kazakh: флот, парк
 * Khmer: នាវាចរ
 * Korean: 함대(艦隊),
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ກອງເຮືອ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: flote
 * Lithuanian: flotilė
 * Macedonian: флота
 * Malay: armada
 * Maori: kahupapa, kaupapa, tāruru
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: fliotte
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flåte, vognpark
 * Nynorsk: flote, flåte, vognpark
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Flott
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фло̏та
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: flota,, loďstvo
 * Slovene: flota
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: plota
 * Tajik: флот, новгон
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: กองเรือ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: флот, ,
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (艦隊)
 * Welsh: llu môr, lluon môr


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
 * 2) * 1628, A. Matthewes (translator), Aminta (originally by )
 * Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.
 * 1)  A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
 * 1)  A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To float.
 * 2)  To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
 * 3)  To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
 * 4) * 1817-18,, , lines 626-627:
 * And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet.
 * 1)  To flee, to escape, to speed away.
 * 2)  To evanesce, disappear, die out.
 * 3)  To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
 * 4)  To move or change in position.
 * 5)  To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
 * 6) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
 * 7) To take the cream from; to skim.
 * 1)  To evanesce, disappear, die out.
 * 2)  To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
 * 3)  To move or change in position.
 * 4)  To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
 * 5) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
 * 6) To take the cream from; to skim.
 * 1)  To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
 * 2) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
 * 3) To take the cream from; to skim.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: минавам бързо
 * Polish: błąkać się

Adjective

 * 1)  Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
 * 2)  Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
 * 1)  Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
 * 1)  Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
 * 1)  Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
 * 1)  Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ταχύς, ὠκύς
 * Latin:
 * Osage: kˀą́saaki
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:

Etymology 4
See.

Noun

 * 1) * 1686, "" as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361:
 * Fire and fleet and candle-lighte
 * Fire and fleet and candle-lighte