Fleece vs Flee - What's the difference?
fleece | flee |
(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
(countable) An insulating wooly jacket
(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
(label) To run away; to escape.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
(label) To escape from.
(label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
As verbs the difference between fleece and flee
is that fleece is to con or trick someone out of money while flee is (label) to run away; to escape.As a noun fleece
is (uncountable) hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.fleece
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(fleec)See also
* (con) nickel and dimeflee
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