Fleet vs Lieutenant - 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.
(military) The lowest commissioned officer rank or ranks in many military forces.
# (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, second lieutenant is the rank below first lieutenant, which is below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as Lieutenant or as the complete forms of the ranks.
# (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
# (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
# (military, British) A naval officer in the Royal Navy who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
# (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
A person who executes the plans and directives of another.
A military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: lieutenant colonel'', ''lieutenant general'', ''lieutenant commander .
As a proper noun fleet
is the stream that ran where fleet street now runs.As a noun lieutenant is
(military) the lowest commissioned officer rank or ranks in many military forces.As an adjective lieutenant is
a military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: lieutenant colonel'', ''lieutenant general'', ''lieutenant commander .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)