adjective
1.(of water) shallow.
2.Fast and nimble in movement.
‘a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot’
adverb
1.At or to a small depth.
noun
1.A country’s navy.
‘the US fleet’
‘The comte de Rochambeau had already begun planning for a siege at Yorktown when he requested assistance from the commander of the French fleet in the Caribbean.’
2.A group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership.
‘the small port supports a fishing fleet’
‘a fleet of battleships’
3.A marshland creek, channel, or ditch.
‘The ditches, dikes and reed-edged fleets that crisscross the grazing marshes here are rich in invertebrates, including the scarce emerald damselfly.’
‘Sam explained that the 3,000 acres of the Nature Reserve is the largest in the English lowlands, the main area being grazing marsh divided by a network of ditches and fleets.’
4.A number of vehicles or aircraft operating together or under the same ownership.
‘a fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital’
‘At lunchtime on August 15, radar operators near Scarborough picked up signals from a fleet of German aircraft heading over the North Sea.’
5.A prison that stood near the Fleet.
6.A stream, now wholly underground, running into the Thames east of Fleet Street.
verb
1.Fade away; be transitory.
‘the cares of boyhood fleet away’
2.Move or pass quickly.
‘a variety of expressions fleeted across his face’
3.Pass (time) rapidly.
‘we fleeted the time carelessly’
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adjective
‘a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot’
