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fleeting 音标拼音: [fl'itɪŋ] a. 飞逝的;疾驰的;短暂的 飞逝的;疾驰的;短暂的 fleeting adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; " a fleeting glance"; " fugitive hours"; " rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; " a momentary glimpse" [ synonym: { fleeting}, { fugitive}, { momentaneous}, { momentary}] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. [ 1913 Webster] All the unaccomplished works of Nature' s hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Naut.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Fleeting \ Fleet" ing\, a. Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See { Transient}. [ 1913 Webster] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " fleeting": abrupt, blunt, brief, brittle, brusque, capricious, changeable, compendious, corruptible, crusty, curt, deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evaporating, fading, fickle, flitting, fly- by- night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gruff, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, laconic, melting, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short, short and sweet, short- lived, snippety, snippy, succinct, temporal, temporary, terse, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vanishing, volatile
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