fleet

fleet is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun & adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sail; to float. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun & adjective. To sail; to float.
2. noun & adjective. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
3. noun & adjective. To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
4. transitive verb. To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
5. transitive verb. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
6. transitive verb. To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
7. transitive verb. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
8. intransitive verb. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
9. intransitive verb. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
10. intransitive verb. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
11. intransitive verb. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
12. intransitive verb. A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
13. intransitive verb. To take the cream from; to skim.
14. noun. a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
15. noun. a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
16. noun. group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
17. noun. group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
18. verb. disappear gradually

    "The pain eventually passed off"

    Synonyms: evanesce, fade, pass

19. verb. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

    "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"

    Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter

20. adjective. moving very fast

    "fleet of foot"

    "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"

    Synonyms: swift

Synonyms

evanesce, fade, pass, dart, flit, flutter, swift

Common word forms

fleets, fleeted, fleeten, fleeter, fleetly, fleetest, fleetful, fleeting, fleetness

Words from these letters

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