[fliːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership
(e.g: the small port supports a fishing fleet)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English flēot ‘ship, shipping’, from flēotan ‘float, swim’ (see fleet)

[fliːt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- fast and nimble in movement
(e.g: a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century: probably from Old Norse fljótr, of Germanic origin and related to fleet

[fliːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a marshland creek, channel, or ditch

- a stream, now wholly underground, running into the Thames east of Fleet Street


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English flēot, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliet, also to fleet

[fliːt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move or pass quickly
(e.g: a variety of expressions fleeted across his face)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English flēotan ‘float, swim’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float

[fliːt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of water) shallow


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet

[fliːt], (Adverb)

Definitions:
- at or to a small depth


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet