English Dictionary

fleet

IPA（発音記号）

/fliːt/

動詞

自動詞 廃用 他動詞 人間対象

(obsolete, intransitive) To float. / (transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

日本語の意味

（旧語）浮遊する / （他動詞／自動詞）表面をかすめるように素早く通過する

Lotus leaves fleet across the pond at dawn, drifting like tiny green boats.

蓮の葉が夜明けに池の上を漂い、小さな緑の舟のようにゆっくりと流れている。

意味（1）

(obsolete, intransitive) To float.

Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […]

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

Long were to tell the troublous stormes, that tosse The private state, and make the life unsweet Who swelling sayles in Caspian sea doth crosse, And in frayle wood on Adrian gulf doth fleet

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.

They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.

Gratiano: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 themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'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 desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.

Portia: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!

意味（6）

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

To fleet tackle when pennant block is used, the keeper, with a strap and heaver, racks both parts of hawser together near pennant block, and the tackle is then overhauled and hooked by the men assigned to those duties.}}

意味（7）

(nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.

We got the long stick … down and fleeted aft, where it was secured.

意味（8）

(nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

To take the cream from; to skim.

fleets （ present singular third-person ）

fleeting （ participle present ）

fleeted （ participle past ）

fleeted （ past ）