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41fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… …
42fleet — [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo European *pleu , denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet… …
43ships — Though they possessed little in the way of seacoasts, the ancient Mesopotamians built a great many boats and ships. This was because the flat plains on which they farmed and fought were crisscrossed by numerous rivers and irrigation canals… …
44fleet rating — A single special premium rate quoted by an insurer for covering the insurance on a number of ships or vehicles owned by one person or company, rather than considering each one individually. The fleet need not consist of identical vehicles or… …
45fleet — [[t]fli͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦♦ fleets 1) N COUNT: usu supp N A fleet is a group of ships organized to do something together, for example to fight battles or to catch fish. The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating. ...restaurants supplied… …
46fleet — I. /flit / (say fleet) noun 1. the largest organised unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes. 2. the largest organisation of warships under the command of a single officer. 3. a number of naval vessels, or vessels carrying… …
47fleet — I. verb Etymology: Middle English fleten, from Old English flēotan; akin to Old High German fliozzan to float, Old English flōwan to flow Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. obsolete drift 2. a. archaic …
48fleet — An organization of ships, aircraft, Marine forces, and shore based fleet activities all under the command of a commander or commander in chief who may exercise operational as well as administrative control. See also major fleet; numbered fleet …
49fleet — Synonyms and related words: Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, age group, agile, alert, animated, argosy, armada, ball the jack, band, barrel, battalion, beguile, bevy, body, boom, bottoms, bowl along …
50fleet — fleet1 noun 1》 a group of ships sailing together or under the same ownership. ↘(the fleet) a country s navy: the US fleet. 2》 a number of vehicles or aircraft operating together. Origin OE flēot ship, shipping , from flēotan (see fleet5).… …
