fleet

fleet englannista suomeksi

1. autokanta

2. laivasto

3. kiitää

4. laivue

5. häipyä

6. nopsa, nopea

1. laivasto marine; ajokalusto, kalusto road; liikkuva kalusto rail

2. kalusto

2. Substantiivi

fleet englanniksi

1. A group of vessels or vehicles.

2. (RQ:Pepys Diary)

3. Any group of associated items.

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5. A large, coordinated group of people.

6. (quote-journal)

7. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.

8. Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.

9. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.

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11. 1628, A. Matthewes (translator), ''Aminta'' (originally by (w))

Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.

12. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

13. To float.

14. (RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)

15. (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra): Our force by land / Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too, / Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like.

16. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

17. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

18. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.

19. (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)

20. 1817-18, (w), ''(w)'', lines 626-627:

And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet.

21. To flee, to escape, to speed away.

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice):O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!And for thy life let justice be accused.Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,To hold opinion with Pythagoras,That souls of animals infuse themselvesInto the trunks of men: thy currish spiritGovern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,Infused itself in thee; for thy desiresAre wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

23. (RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)

24. To evanesce, disappear, die out.

25. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice):How all other passions fleet to air,As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!O love, be moderate; allay thy ecstasy;In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess!I feel too much thy blessing; make it less,For fear I surfeit!

26. To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.

27. (quote-book)

28. To move or change in position.

29. {{quote-text|en|year=1898|author=Frank T. Bullen|title=The Cruise of the "Cachalot"

30. To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.

31. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

32. To take the cream from; to skim.

33. Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.

(syn)

34. (RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)

35. (RQ:Grahame Wind in the Willows)it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them — disaster momentous indeed to their expedition(..)

36. (quote-av)

37. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

38. (RQ:Mortimer Husbandry)

39. (obsolete form of)

40. 1686, "(w)" as printed in ''The Oxford Book of English Verse'' (1900) p. 361:

Fire and fleet and candle-lighte

41. (alternative form of)