Fleet vs Faint - What's the difference?
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A group of vessels or vehicles.
Any group of associated items.
* 2004 , Jim Hoskins, Building an on Demand Computing Environment with IBM
(nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
(nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
(obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German fleet
* Matthewes
(nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
(obsolete) To float.
To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy
* Shakespeare
(nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
(nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
To take the cream from; to skim.
(literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.
* Milton
* 1908:
(uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed.
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
* Sir J. Davies
* 2005 , .
To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of a suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
* Bible, Mark viii. 8
* Guardian
To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 10
To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
* Alexander Pope
As a proper noun fleet
is the stream that ran where fleet street now runs.As an adjective faint is
lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.As a noun faint is
the act of fainting.As a verb faint is
to lose consciousness caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of a suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).fleet
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Together wove we nets to entrap the fish / In floods and sedgy fleets .
Derived terms
* Fleet * fleet in being * Fleet Street * merchant fleetEtymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- [Antony] "Our sever'd navy too,
Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like."'' -- Shakespeare, ''Antony and Cleopatra
- a ship that fleets the gulf
- (Spenser)
- Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly.
- And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet;'' -- Percy Shelley, ''Rosalind and Helen .
- (Totten)
Adjective
(en-adj)- In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.
- (Mortimer)
faint
English
Adjective
(er)- "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Robert Burns - To Dr. Blackjack.
- the faint prosecution of the war
- do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?
Derived terms
* damn with faint praiseVerb
(en verb)- If I send them away fasting they will faint by the way.
- Hearing the honour intended her, she fainted away.
- If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.