Fleet
(n. & a.) To sail |
Fleet
(n. & a.) To fly swiftly |
Fleet
(n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass |
Fleet
(v. t.) To pass over rapidly |
Fleet
(v. t.) To hasten over |
Fleet
(v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of |
Fleet
(v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain. |
Fleet
(v. i.) Swift in motion |
Fleet
(v. i.) Light |
Fleet
(v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels |
Fleet
(v. i.) A flood |
Fleet
(v. i.) A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). |
Fleet
(v. i.) To take the cream from |
Fleet-foot
(a.) Swift of foot. |
Force
(v. t.) To stuff |
Force
(n.) A waterfall |
Force
(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind |
Force
(n.) Power exerted against will or consent |
Force
(n.) Strength or power for war |
Force
(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things |
Force
(n.) Validity |
Force
(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion |
Force
(n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible |
Force
(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence |
Force
(n.) To do violence to |
Force
(n.) To obtain or win by strength |
Force
(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence |
Force
(n.) To put in force |
Force
(n.) To exert to the utmost |
Force
(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
Force
(n.) To provide with forces |
Force
(n.) To allow the force of |
Force
(v. i.) To use violence |
Force
(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything |
Force
(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight |
Force pump
() A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves |
Force pump
() A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure |
Navy
(n.) A fleet of ships |
Navy
(n.) The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively |
Navy
(n.) The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation |
| tour de force | a masterly or brilliant feat |
drive thrust
driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
force out
force-out
force play
force | a putout of a base runner who is required to run, the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base, the shortstop got the runner at second on a force |
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Secretary | head of a former executive department, combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in |
| violence force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists), he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one |
| reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
| Count Fleet | thoroughbred that won the triple crown in |
Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
| Charlestown Navy Yard | the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored |
| fleet ballistic missile submarine | a submarine carrying ballistic missiles |
| force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
lubricating system
force-feed lubricating system
force feed
pressure-feed lubricating system
pressure feed | mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings |
| navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |
navy yard
naval shipyard | a military shipyard |
| effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
dark blue
navy
navy blue | a dark shade of blue |
force
forcefulness
strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
| force | a powerful effect or influence, the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them |
| Fleet Street | British journalism |
| Navy Cross | a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
navy bean
pea bean
white bean | white-seeded bean, usually dried |
| Force | formed in as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders, became one of PLO's elite units, has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
| Loyalist Volunteer Force | a terrorist group formed in in Northern Ireland, seeks to prevent the peace process, murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace |
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia
United Self-Defense Group of Colombia
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
AUC | a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups, is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members, the AUC conducted over assassinations in one year |
defense defence defense force
defence force | an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack, he joined the defense against invasion |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
| Navy Department | a former executive department of the United States government, created in and combined with the War Department in |
labor force
labor pool | the source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
| task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
navy
naval forces | an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare |
United States Navy
US Navy
USN
Navy | the navy of the United States of America, the agency that maintains and trains and equips combateady naval forces |
United States Air Force Academy
US Air Force Academy | a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force |
Royal Air Force
RAF | the airforce of Great Britain |
air force
airforce | the airborne branch of a country's armed forces |
United States Air Force
U. S. Air Force
US Air Force
Air Force USAF | the airforce of the United States of America, the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space |
Air Force Space Command
AFSPC | a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible for defending the United States through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations |
Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Air Force ISR
AFISR | an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority, operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms |
guerrilla force
guerilla force | an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment, often rural and organized in large groups |
military unit
military force
military group
force | a unit that is part of some military service, he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men |
paramilitary
paramilitary force
paramilitary unit
paramilitary organization
paramilitary organisation | a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) |
| force | a group of people having the power of effective action, he joined forces with a band of adventurers |
force
personnel | group of people willing to obey orders, a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens |
| task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task |
police
police force
constabulary
law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
security force
private security force | a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry |
work force
workforce
manpower
hands
men | the force of workers available |
| air force academy | an academy for training air force officers |
| fleet | a group of warships organized as a tactical unit |