Fleet vs Ephemeral - 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.
Lasting for a short period of time.
* Vicesimus Knox
* Sir J. Stephen
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(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
* 1986 , W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Y?ichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9,
As a proper noun fleet
is the stream that ran where fleet street now runs.As a noun ephemeral is
something which lasts for a short period of time.As an adjective ephemeral is
lasting for a short period of time.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)
ephemeral
English
(wikipedia ephemeral)Synonyms
* (short-lived) ephemeronAdjective
(en adjective)- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
- It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral , because human, sorrows.
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- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
