Synonyms of the word fleet


FLEETACCUMULATION - AGGREGATION - ASSEMBLAGE - COLLECTION - DART - DISAPPEAR - EVANESCE - FADE - FAST - FLIT - FLUTTER - HURRY - PASS - SPEED - SWIFT - VANISH - ZIP

fleet

  • n. A group of vessels or vehicles.
  • n. Any group of associated items.
  • n. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of…
  • n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's…
  • n. (obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German…
  • n. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
  • v. (obsolete) To float.
  • v. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
  • v. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
  • v. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of…
  • v. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
  • v. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
  • v. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  • v. To take the cream from; to skim.
  • adj. (literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble;…
  • adj. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

accumulation

  • n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
  • n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
  • n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
  • n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  • n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
  • n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

aggregation

  • n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
  • n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
  • n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
  • n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
  • n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

assemblage

  • n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
  • n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
  • n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

collection

  • n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  • n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • n. The activity of collecting.
  • n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
  • n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  • n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

dart

  • n. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed…
  • n. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  • n. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
  • n. A sudden or fast movement.
  • n. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  • n. A fish; the dace.
  • n. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
  • n. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
  • v. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
  • v. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
  • v. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

disappear

  • v. (intransitive) To vanish.
  • v. (transitive) To make vanish.
  • v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

evanesce

  • v. (intransitive) To disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor.
  • v. (intransitive, chemistry) To transition from the solid state to gaseous state without ever becoming a…

fade

  • adj. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
  • adj. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook,…
  • n. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top…
  • n. (slang) A fight.
  • n. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene).
  • v. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither,…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting…
  • v. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to fade.
  • v. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

fast

  • adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
  • adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
  • adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
  • adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
  • adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
  • adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
  • adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
  • adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
  • adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
  • adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
  • adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
  • adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
  • adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
  • adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
  • adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
  • adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
  • interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
  • v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
  • n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
  • n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

flit

  • n. A fluttering or darting movement.
  • n. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
  • n. (slang) A homosexual.
  • v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
  • v. To move quickly from one location to another.
  • v. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
  • v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
  • v. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
  • adj. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

flutter

  • v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
  • v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
  • v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
  • v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
  • n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
  • n. A state of agitation.
  • n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
  • n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
  • n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

hurry

  • n. Rushed action.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
  • v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  • v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

speed

  • n. The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity.
  • n. The rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the…
  • n. (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
  • n. (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
  • n. (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
  • n. (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a…
  • n. (archaic) Luck, success, prosperity.
  • n. (slang) Personal preference.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
  • v. (intransitive) To go fast.
  • v. (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
  • v. (obsolete) To be expedient.
  • v. (archaic) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
  • v. (archaic) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
  • v. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • v. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

swift

  • adj. Fast; quick; rapid.
  • adj. Capable of moving at high speeds.
  • n. (obsolete) The current of a stream.
  • n. A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid…
  • n. Some lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
  • n. A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
  • adv. (obsolete, poetic) Swiftly.

vanish

  • v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
  • n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
  • n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

zip

  • n. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • n. (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
  • n. (Britain, New Zealand) A zip fastener.
  • n. (slang) Zero; nothing.
  • n. A trip on a zipline.
  • n. (computing, informal) A zip file.
  • n. (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
  • interj. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • v. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file,…
  • v. (intransitive) (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) (followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to…
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) move quickly.
  • v. To travel on a zipline.
  • n. (US) A ZIP code; a US postal code.
  • n. (US, by extension) Any postal code, for any country.

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