Fleet vs Transient - What's the difference?

fleet | transient |

As a proper noun fleet

is the stream that ran where fleet street now runs.

As an adjective transient is

passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

As a noun transient is

something which is transient.

fleet

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A group of vessels or vehicles.

Any group of associated items.

* 2004 , Jim Hoskins, Building an on Demand Computing Environment with IBM

This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.

(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.

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German fleet

* Matthewes

Together wove we nets to entrap the fish / In floods and sedgy fleets .

(nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Derived terms

* Fleet * fleet in being * Fleet Street * merchant fleet

Etymology 3

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To float.

[Antony] "Our sever'd navy too,
Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like."'' -- Shakespeare, ''Antony and Cleopatra

To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of

a ship that fleets the gulf

(Spenser)

To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy

* Shakespeare

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 .

(nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.

(Totten)

(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.

Adjective

(en-adj)

(literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble; fast.

* Milton

In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.

* 1908:

(uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

(Mortimer)

transient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

a transient pleasure

* Milton

this transient world

Remaining for only a brief time.

a transient view of a landscape

(physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.

Passing through; passing from one person to another.

(philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Synonyms

* (passing) passing, transitory, temporary * (brief) brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

Antonyms

* (passing) permanent * (brief) permanent * (mathematics) recurrent * (philosophy) immanent

Derived terms

* transience * transiently * transientness

Noun

(en noun)

Something which is transient.

(physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

(acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker

* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

An unhoused person

Synonyms

* (4) traveller: itinerant, migrant, traveller * (5) homeless: homeless

Anagrams

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