Fleet vs Convoy - What's the difference?
fleet | convoy |
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.
(nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels
A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort
To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
* Emerson
In nautical terms the difference between fleet and convoy
is that fleet is to move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle while convoy is one or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.As nouns the difference between fleet and convoy
is that fleet is a group of vessels or vehicles while convoy is one or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.As verbs the difference between fleet and convoy
is that fleet is to float while convoy is to escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.As proper nouns the difference between fleet and convoy
is that fleet is the stream that ran where Fleet Street now runs while Convoy is a village in Ireland.As an adjective fleet
is swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.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)
convoy
English
Noun
(wikipedia convoy) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A frigate convoys a merchantman.
- I know ye skilful to convoy / The total freight of hope and joy.
