Fleeted vs Fleeced - What's the difference?
fleeted | fleeced |
(fleet)
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.
(fleece)
(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)
As verbs the difference between fleeted and fleeced
is that fleeted is (fleet) while fleeced is (fleece).fleeted
English
Verb
(head)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)