Found 3 items, similar to fleeting.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: fleeting
fana
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fleeting
fleeting
adj : lasting for a markedly brief time;
“a fleeting glance”;
“fugitive hours”;
“rapid momentaneous association of
things that meet and pass”;
“a momentary glimpse” [syn:
fugitive,
momentaneous,
momentary]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: fleeting
fleet
\fleet\ (fl[=e]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
fleeted; p. pr. &
vb. n.
fleeting.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS.
fle['o]tan to swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS.
fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to
float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr.
plei^n to sail, swim, float, Skr. plu to swim, sail.
[root]84. Cf.
Fleet, n. & a.,
Float,
Pluvial,
Flow.]
1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]
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And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.
--Spenser.
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2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
as a light substance.
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All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. --Milton.
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3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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4. (Naut.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons;
as, the crew fleeted aft.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]