Synonym: band, company, fast, group, nimble, quick, rapid, swift. Similar words: flee, sleep, sleeve, rifle, go to sleep, flexible, meet, see to. Meaning: [flɪːt] n. 1. group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership 2. group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership 3. a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership 4. a group of warships organized as a tactical unit. v. 1. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart 2. disappear gradually. adj. moving very fast.
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181. When hundreds of survivors of a shipwrecked French fleet washed up on the beaches of Florida, they were put to the sword, beside a river the Spanish called Matanzas ("slaughters").
182. The decision to mothball the shuttle fleet has not come without criticism, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted.
183. Currently AMCL manages a medium - sized tanker fleet composed of VLCC, SUEZMAX and AFRAMAX.
184. Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, has successfully passed final trials, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Monday.
185. In one particularly bold maneuver, she dragged her Mediterranean fleet 40 miles overland in order to relaunch it, via the Gulf of Suez, into the Red Sea.
186. Believing that they had knocked out all American defences on the island, a Japanese fleet went to take Wake Island without any air support.
187. Every year, May will roll out a new series of high-end industry products. In 2010, May introduces the brand new CEIL fleet of products, which is leading the industry standard.
188. The shaft of light only shone 200m into the air, so it was unlikely to attract the attention of passing aliens such as Darth Vader's Imperial fleet.
189. Under the command of Admiral Firmus Piett from the Star Dreadnought Executor(sentencedict.com), the Imperial fleet engaged the Rebels in an effort to annihilate them once and for all.
190. The fleet from stem to stern covered a vast area on the surface of the river.
191. COSCO Group's tanker fleet development is also confronted with challenges from domestic same trade . "
192. Still, he didn't have any hard evidence of this and knew of no way to get it -- now that he wasn't inside a Fleet installation, he had no access to military computer systems.
193. The past decade has seen some significant changes in the ownership of the world containership fleet and the time charter component has become increasingly important.
194. The Growler is now in production and undergoing operational evaluation by the Navy, which plans to stand up the first two fleet Growler squadrons later this year.
195. The shipowner has still held a merchant fleet of seven cargo - vessels.
196. This system has watch-dog circuit so it prevents work abnormality caused by program fleet and power fault.
197. Aeros (Airborne Robotic Oil Spill Recovery System) is a fleet of airplane-deployed robots that cordon off the oil and use centrifuge-like oil/water separators to collect oil for refining.
198. Smith's administrative commander continued to be Lieutenant General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. , commanding general of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific,(sentencedict.com) with headquarters in Hawaii.
199. Capable of carrying 500 pound bombs, air-to-ground, and air-to-air missiles the UAV fleet is poised to perform the lion's share of American air support.
200. The system mainly contains colligation shipping freight index, colligation fleet capacity index, shipping cost index, climate sub-index, shipping industry entrepreneur expectation index.
201. Europeans preserved the balance of power, and the British fleet protected trade, while America criticised military adventures, such as the Boer war, as immoral.
202. Will also visit South Korea since the Navy's Second Fleet headquarters, and visit the Korean government that the attack by North Korean torpedo sank the "security number" guard ship.
203. Making a stand with his firefighters from the Fleet Bridge and down to the Thames, James hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak.
204. U. S. Fifth Fleet said on the 20th, a submarine and an amphibious landing ship earlier in the day in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz collision.
205. It was designed to be a dockyard, where some of the first ships of Russia's Baltic fleet were built, and also fortified to be an extra defense for the newly obtained Neva delta.
206. Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes.
207. The merged company will also take over loans associated with the GSL fleet.
More similar words: flee, sleep, sleeve, rifle, go to sleep, flexible, meet, see to, sheet, greet, reflection, street, see that, flexibility, agree to, meet with, meet up with.